Tubi

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Tubi
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3 months ago

Base Salary

$186k - $266k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement high-performance backend services in Elixir.
  • Architect and evolve distributed systems and services running in Kubernetes.
  • Optimize systems for scale, resilience, observability, and security.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver pragmatic solutions to complex problems.
  • Work across service boundaries and own critical architecture and service design.
  • Use AI-assisted coding tools such as Claude Code and Cursor in backend development.
  • Prototype and integrate AI-powered optimizations for throughput, latency, anomaly detection, and distributed-system efficiency.
  • Contribute to AI-enabled developer tools and platforms, including automated code reviews, test generation, and observability dashboards.

Requirements

  • Experience with Elixir or a strong background in other backend or functional programming languages.
  • Familiarity with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, Kubernetes, and observability solutions.
  • Experience designing distributed systems with clean APIs and modular components.
  • System design and architecture skills focused on reliability and performance.
  • Experience with continuous delivery of software systems.
  • Rust programming experience is preferred.
  • Extensive production experience with Elixir is preferred.
  • Familiarity with Pingora or Nginx is preferred.
  • Hands-on Kubernetes experience is preferred.

Benefits

  • Hybrid role requiring travel to the San Francisco office two days per week.
  • Eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, long-term incentive plan, medical, dental, vision, insurance, 401(k), and paid time off.
  • Full-time regular employees receive up to 12 weeks of paid parental bonding leave.
  • Monthly wellness reimbursement is provided.

Tech Stack

ElixirgRPCKubernetesRust

Categories

Tubi

About Tubi

501-1,000 employees

Tubi builds a free, ad-supported streaming platform that delivers on-demand movies and TV shows along with Tubi Originals and live FAST channels. Its business model is advertising across direct-sold and programmatic inventory. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, Tubi was acquired by Fox Corporation in 2020 and offers a library of over 275,000 titles and nearly 250 FAST channels.

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