Engineering Manager
Tubi · San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) · hybrid
Engineering Manager (Tubi, Inc.; San Francisco, California): Manage and mentor a team of backend software engineers. Conduct performance reviews, career development planning, and hiring. Establish engineering best practices for development, code review, and operational excellence. Promote sustainable on-call practices and production ownership. Lead the design and evolution of high-performance, client-facing APIs supporting homepage, search, autoplay, content detail, and other core user experiences. Architect and maintain distributed microservices running in Kubernetes. Drive architectural decisions for API gateway, traffic routing, data sanitization, and service-to-service communication (e.g., gRPC, REST). Ensure systems are optimized for scalability, availability, observability, and security. Define long-term technical direction for backend infrastructure supporting large-scale events and global traffic spikes. Oversee metadata management systems, including content licensing validation and availability window enforcement. Guide third-party data ingestion, normalization, and feed integration across multiple partner platforms. Lead backend support for multi-platform integrations (e.g., Google, FireTV, Apple, Samsung, Vizio, and others). Own and evolve unified API gateway and data firewall capabilities, including traffic control, compliance enforcement, and observability standards. Establish and improve failover and disaster-recovery strategies to ensure zero-downtime deployments and high system availability. Partner with Product, Legal, ML, and Client Platform teams to align backend architecture with business and regulatory requirements. Support personalization, recommendation, and content presentation capabilities through backend system design. Provide technical leadership during high-traffic campaigns and major global events. Establish standards for responsible use of AI-assisted development tools. Explore AI-enabled system optimization, anomaly detection, and developer tooling improvements. Ensure AI integration aligns with security, privacy, and compliance requirements. Position supervises a team of Senior Software Engineer, Backend, Software Engineer, Associate Software Engineer, and Senior Software Engineers. Hybrid permitted pursuant to company policy.
Salary: $275,176 – 302,693.60 per year
Education Requirements: Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
Experience Requirements: Five (5) years of experience as a Backend Software Engineer, Software Engineer, or related occupation.
Must have experience with the following: designing and operating high-availability distributed systems serving large-scale production traffic; building and maintaining RESTful APIs and gRPC-based services; working with Kubernetes in production environments; implementing observability solutions (logging, metrics, and monitoring systems); Elixir; Rust in backend services; designing API gateways, proxy services, or data firewall systems; and building metadata management systems and content platform services.
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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.
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.
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.