About the Role:
We’re looking for a Senior AI Tools Engineer - Developer Experience with deep expertise in C++ or Golang to lead the evolution of our backend platform and tooling. While our ecosystem has historical roots in Elixir/Scala, we are shifting our focus toward strengthening our core infrastructure with high-performance programming languages.
In this role, you’ll architect and implement secure, high-performance systems, collaborating closely with teams focused on compliance, privacy, experimentation, and infrastructure. You should be comfortable working independently across system boundaries and mentoring engineers while driving technical strategy.
Note: While this is primarily a C++ or Go role, we maintain a footprint of Rust-based tools. A cursory knowledge of Rust or a willingness to interface with Rust-based infrastructure is critical for this role
We’re particularly interested in engineers excited to learn and integrate AI-powered coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) into their daily workflow to boost velocity and code quality. Prior experience with such tools is a plus.
What You'll Do:
- Architect & Build: Lead the design, development, and maintenance of high-throughput services and tools using Rust
- Collaborate: Partner with backend and client teams to deliver high-performance, scalable components that power the next era of our platform.
- Optimize: Design systems for reliability, observability, and scale, with an emphasis on clean APIs and modular components.
- Innovate with AI: Explore and integrate AI-based development tools into engineering workflows; evangelize productivity best practices within the team.
- Strategize: Partner with engineering leadership and cross-functional partners to drive technical vision and influence roadmap decisions.
- Mentor: Foster a culture of technical rigor, curiosity, and continuous learning by mentoring mid-level and junior engineers
Your Background
- Experience: 4+ years of backend software development experience, with significant production experience in C++ (C++17 or later) or Golang.
- The "Rust" Factor: A working knowledge or "read-level" proficiency in Rust is a major plus, particularly familiarity with the Tokio or Pingora ecosystems.
- Systems Expertise: Deep understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, memory management, and performance engineering.
- Cloud Native: Experience with modern infrastructure including Kubernetes, gRPC, CDNs, S3, and Terraform.
- Data Layer: Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, Clickhouse).
- Tooling & Observability: Proficiency with modern observability stacks and CI/CD pipelines.
- AI Enthusiast: Genuine enthusiasm for using and experimenting with AI tools to enhance software engineering workflows.
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 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.
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.
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.
Skills Required
- 4+ years of backend software development experience
- 1+ years using Rust in production environments
- Solid experience with Rust ecosystem (Tokio, Axum, Tonic, Hyper, Bytes, Serde, Tracing)
- Experience with Pingora stack (preferred)
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and performance engineering
- Experience with cloud-native technologies (Kubernetes, gRPC, CDN, S3, Terraform) and modern observability stacks
- Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, Clickhouse)
- Strong engineering craftsmanship: testing, documentation, reliability, and performance optimization
- Enthusiasm or prior experience using AI-powered coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor)
Tubi Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Tubi and has not been reviewed or approved by Tubi.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision start from day one with multiple plan options under the parent-company framework; a high employer premium share and added supports like HSA funding and mental‑health resources strengthen coverage.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with matching plus an additional company contribution and a student‑debt program that counts eligible payments toward matching indicate robust long‑term savings support.
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Parental & Family Support — A dedicated 12 weeks of paid parental bonding leave, along with backup care and adoption/surrogacy reimbursements, provides meaningful family assistance.
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What We Do
Tubi, a division of FOX Entertainment, is an ad-supported video-on-demand service with more than 40,000 movies and TV shows in the U.S., including a growing library of Tubi Originals, 145+ local and live news, sports and entertainment channels, and 400+ entertainment partners, featuring content from every major Hollywood studio. Tubi gives fans of film, television, news and sports an easy way to discover new content that is completely free. Tubi is available in the U.S. on Android and iOS mobile devices, Amazon Echo Show, Google Nest Hub Max, Comcast Xfinity X1, Cox Contour, and on connected television devices such as Amazon Fire TV, Vizio TVs, LG TVs, Sony TVs, Samsung TVs, Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, PlayStation 4 & 5, Xbox One & Series X|S, and soon on Hisense TVs globally. Consumers can also watch Tubi content on the web at www.tubi.tv.
