Staff Software Engineer (Backend)

About the Role:

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer who combines deep technical expertise with strong organizational influence. This role operates beyond individual service ownership and requires demonstrated impact across teams, domains, and large-scale distributed systems.

This is a hybrid role based out of our SF office. 

What You'll Do:

• Define and drive architectural direction across multiple services and teams
• Lead the design and evolution of distributed systems
• Ensure systems are built for long-term scalability, resilience, observability, and security
• Drive cross-team technical alignment across client, infrastructure, product, ads, and content organizations
• Mentor senior engineers and elevate engineering standards across the team
• Own critical system design decisions that impact multiple platforms
• Contribute to domain leadership in areas such as Linear systems, EPG platforms, or time-based content architectures (preferred)
• Shape and evolve Tubi’s backend development practices, including AI-native engineering workflows
• Flexibility to support business-critical needs outside