Staff Software Engineer (Backend)

<p><strong>About the Role:</strong></p> <p>We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer who combines deep technical expertise with strong organizational influence. This role operates beyond individual service ownership and requires demonstrated impact across teams, domains, and large-scale distributed systems.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is a hybrid role based out of either our SF or NYC office. You must be willing to travel to our SF or NYC office 3 days/week.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong>What You'll Do:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Define and drive architectural direction across multiple services and teams</li> <li>Lead the design and evolution of distributed systems</li> <li>Ensure systems are built for long-term scalability, resilience, observability, and security</li> <li>Drive cross-team technical alignment across client, infrastructure, product, ads, and content organizations</li> <li>Mentor senior engineers and elevate engineering standards across the team</li> <li>Own critical system design decisions that impact multiple platforms</li> <li>Contribute to domain leadership in areas such as Linear systems, EPG platforms, or time-based content architectures (preferred)</li> <li>Shape and evolve Tubi’s backend development practices, including AI-native engineering workflows</li> <li>Flexibility to support business-critical needs outside regular working hours when necessary, like oncall and live events.</li> <li>Strong sense of ownership, with proactive attention to on-call situations and production stability.</li> <li>Demonstrated cross-team leadership, with familiarity working across multiple teams in complex organizational environments.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Your Background:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Extensive experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems</li> <li>Deep expertise in backend development (Elixir and Rust preferred, or strong background in comparable languages)</li> <li>Strong architectural judgment with proven cross-team technical leadership</li> <li>Strong experience with gRPC/Protocol Buffers, RESTful APIs, Kubernetes, and observability systems</li> <li>Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives</li> <li>Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate trade-offs and drive alignment</li> <li>Experience working in high-traffic, mission-critical production environments</li> <li>Familiarity with Linear content systems, EPG platforms, or other time-based scheduling architectures is preferred</li> <li>Hands-on experience building or supporting systems for large-scale live events (e.g., major sports to