Senior Software Engineer, Content Onboarding

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About Tubi:

Boldly built for every fandom, Tubi is a free streaming service that entertains over 100 million monthly active users. Tubi offers the world’s largest collection of Hollywood movies and TV shows, thousands of creator-led stories and hundreds of Tubi Originals made for the most passionate fans. Headquartered in San Francisco and founded in 2014, Tubi is part of Tubi Media Group, a division of Fox Corporation.

About the Team:

Tubi’s Content Platforms Engineering team is on a mission to innovate and optimize the infrastructure powering our content ecosystem. We’re responsible for the full lifecycle of content ingestion and delivery—from acquiring assets from partners to delivering rich media experiences to millions of users.

Our scope includes:

• Scalable content ingestion pipelines from external providers
• Video transcoding and asset management
• Efficient, high-performance content delivery to client platforms
• Linear video delivery infrastructure

We’re a passionate group of engineers who value clean design, high standards, and systems that empower Tubi’s content operations.

About the Role:

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with deep experience in backend development, content platforms, and system design. In this role, you will work closely with Engineering, Production, Design, Data Science & Analytics, Content, and Legal teams to build next-generation content onboarding systems. You’ll help create workflows that enable efficient media processing, AI-assisted content enhancement, and seamless integration across teams.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and build a highly efficient Content Management System to onboard content from diverse external partners.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Engineering, Product, Design, Data Science) to ensure system functionality, interoperability, scalability, and resilience.
• Partner with Content Operations to translate business needs into practical technical solutions.
• Maintain high standards for software architecture, code quality, and team collaboration.
• Contribute to system evolution, from ingestion pipelines to delivery workflows, using modern technologies and patterns.
• Advocate for automation, performance, and scalability across the content platform stack.

Your Background:

• 5+ years of experience with programming languages and software systems (e.g., Elixir, Erlang, Golang, Ruby, Scala, Python).
• Experience with background job processing frameworks (e.g., Sidekiq, Celery, Oban).
• Strong understanding of software systems and databases.
• Strong understanding of system design.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field, with 5+ years of industry experience (exceptions made for exceptional candidates).

Bonus:

• Experience with metadata normalization and transformation in large-scale media ingestion pipelines.
• Hands-on expertise with workflow orchestration engines (e.g., Temporal, Apache Airflow, Cadence).
• Familiarity with gRPC/Protocol Buffers and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures using Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar messaging systems.
• A passion for improving operational efficiency and system robustness through automation and tooling.

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Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is is listed annually below. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, long-term incentive plan, and various benefits including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents.

Tubi is a division of Fox Corporation, and the FOX Employee Benefits summarized here, covers the majority of all US employee benefits. The following distinctions below outline the differences between the Tubi and FOX benefits:

• For US-based non-exempt Tubi employees, the FOX Employee Benefits summary accurately captures the Vacation and Sick Time.
• For all salaried/exempt employees, in lieu of the FOX Vacation policy, Tubi offers a Flexible Time off Policy to manage all personal matters.
• For all full-time, regular employees, in lieu of FOX Paid Parental Leave, Tubi offers a generous Parental Leave Program, which allows parents twelve (12) weeks of paid bonding leave within the first year of birth, adoption, surrogacy, or foster placement of a child in addition to applicable government leave program(s) and FOX’s short-term disability policy. This time is 100% paid through a combination of any applicable state, city, and federal leaves and wage-replacement programs in addition to contributions made by Tubi.
• For all full-time, regular employees, Tubi offers a monthly wellness reimbursement.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.

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