Staff Backend Architect: AI-Driven, Scalable Systems

Tubi - Canada; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 227,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

401(k) plan

Flexible time off

Parental leave

Wellness reimbursement

Job summary

Tubi, a division of Fox Corporation, seeks a Staff Software Engineer to influence multiple teams and drive the architecture of large-scale distributed systems. This hybrid role supports both SF and NYC offices, with travel to either location three days per week.

You will mentor engineers, shape backend practices, and lead critical design decisions across platforms, including AI-native workflows. The role demands deep expertise in backend development (Elixir/Rust), strong cross-team leadership,

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep backend development experience with Elixir and Rust.
• Strong architectural judgment with cross-team technical leadership.
• Experience with Kubernetes and observability systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive architectural direction across multiple services and teams.
• Lead the design and evolution of distributed systems.
• Ensure systems are built for long-term scalability, resilience, observability, and security.
• Drive cross-team technical alignment across client, infrastructure, product, ads, and content organizations.
• Mentor senior engineers and elevate engineering standards across the team.
• Own critical system design decisions that impact multiple platforms.
• Contribute to domain leadership in areas such as Linear systems, EPG platforms, or time-based content architectures (preferred).
• Shape and evolve backend development practices, including AI-native engineering workflows.

Skills

Distributed systems

Elixir/Rust backend

gRPC/Protobuf

Kubernetes

Observability

Leadership

On-call/production reliability

Tools

Pingora

Nginx

Job description

Tubi, a division of Fox Corporation, seeks a Staff Software Engineer to influence multiple teams and drive the architecture of large-scale distributed systems. This hybrid role supports both SF and NYC offices, with travel to either location three days per week.

You will mentor engineers, shape backend practices, and lead critical design decisions across platforms, including AI-native workflows. The role demands deep expertise in backend development (Elixir/Rust), strong cross-team leadership,