Staff Backend Software Engineer
Fox Corporation3 months ago
Los Angeles, CA, USA +2 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$143k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of RESTful APIs and Celery-based asynchronous workers for publishing, media processing, SSAI and VAST workflows, imports, and reporting.
- Own the reliability, performance, queue design, deduplication, dispatch patterns, backpressure, and operational logging of distributed systems.
- Drive data and integration decisions involving PostgreSQL, Redis, object storage, and warehouse-backed reporting.
- Lead or significantly contribute to Terraform and AWS changes involving Elastic Beanstalk tiers, IAM, networking, WAF, rate limits, observability, and phased rollouts.
- Improve observability through structured logging, Prometheus-style metrics, Grafana, CloudWatch, and actionable on-call alarms.
- Define testing strategy and operational-readiness checks for critical paths, migrations, and services.
- Represent backend concerns in planning, design reviews, incident discussions, and cross-team technical decisions.
- Establish responsible AI-assisted development practices and guide AI-supported system design, optimization, developer tooling, and observability.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional backend or backend-heavy engineering experience in platform systems, or equivalent depth, with meaningful ownership of large services or platforms.
- Strong Python experience and a record of designing service-oriented systems, APIs, background jobs, idempotency mechanisms, failure handling, and capacity-aware systems.
- Deep hands-on experience with Celery or similar systems and AMQP/RabbitMQ-class message brokers, including retries, heartbeats, queue splits, and operational debugging.
- Strong SQL and PostgreSQL experience, plus practical Redis usage for coordination, rate limiting, circuit breaking, and concurrency correctness.
- Substantial experience with AWS and GCP cloud infrastructure and Terraform.
- Experience with Docker, ECS, Kubernetes, container deployment, multi-cloud networking, and cloud CI/CD is preferred.
- Experience with IAM, TLS for data stores, network egress controls, WAF, rate limiting, and authorization models such as RBAC or ABAC.
- Experience establishing engineering standards, component architectures, development practices, and cross-team alignment.
- Strong written communication, judgment under ambiguity, and the ability to improve team quality while maintaining delivery speed.
- Experience in early-stage or rapidly evolving environments and ideally building products from 0 to 1 is preferred.
- Experience with Druid, BigQuery, large analytical query constraints, media or entertainment, creator economy, CTV, OTT, SSAI, VAST, CDN, or edge processing is preferred.
- Willingness and ability to establish responsible practices for AI-assisted coding and AI-enhanced architecture, optimization, developer experience, and observability.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Insurance benefits and a 401(k) plan.
- Paid time off and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents.
- Benefits for union-represented employees follow the applicable collective bargaining agreement.
- Candidates in Texas may be considered; the posting is marked as hybrid.
Tech Stack
AWSDockerGitGitHub ActionsGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanagRPCKubernetesPostgreSQLPrometheuspytestPythonRabbitMQRedisTerraformTypeScript
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About Fox Corporation
Fox Corporation is a U.S. media company that produces and distributes news, sports, and entertainment via cable, broadcast, and streaming through brands like FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations, and Tubi. Its business model blends advertising, affiliate/distribution fees, and content licensing. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Los Angeles, it owns 29 U.S. broadcast TV stations, including outlets in top DMAs that collectively produce extensive local news.