Remote Senior Data Platform Engineer - Spark/Scala

FOX News Channel; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

401(k)

Paid time off

Discretionary bonus

Job summary

FOX News Channel is seeking a senior software engineer to design and scale the Audience Builder platform, enabling billions of identity records to activate to ad platforms. You will work on Spark pipelines, data models, and integration with the in-house AdRise stack.

The role involves optimizing performance, collaborating across data platform teams, and supporting on-call rotation for reliability. Remote candidates will be considered; strong background in JVM languages preferred.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience building production data or backend systems.
• Strong programming skills in Scala, or a strong background in another JVM/functional language.
• Hands-on experience with Apache Spark and columnar/lakehouse formats such as Delta Lake, Parquet, or Iceberg, particularly on Databricks.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, data modeling, partitioning, and performance tuning at scale.
• Experience integrating with external APIs and building reliable batch or streaming pipelines.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, with equivalent industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance distributed systems for high availability, scalability, and operability at ad-tech scale.
• Design data models, bitmap encodings, and APIs that serve product UIs, analytics, and AI agents as first-class clients.
• Partner with ad ops, data science, and business teams to create tools that turn audience definitions into activated, revenue-generating segments.
• Operate partner integrations that determine which audiences are available on which platforms.
• Own quality, correctness, and performance of audience sizing and reporting that advertisers and internal stakeholders depend on.

Skills

Scala

Apache Spark

Distributed systems design

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Parquet

Iceberg

Job description

FOX News Channel is seeking a senior software engineer to design and scale the Audience Builder platform, enabling billions of identity records to activate to ad platforms. You will work on Spark pipelines, data models, and integration with the in-house AdRise stack.

The role involves optimizing performance, collaborating across data platform teams, and supporting on-call rotation for reliability. Remote candidates will be considered; strong background in JVM languages preferred.