Staff Software Engineer, Rust

Tubi

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Tubi is a global entertainment company and the most watched free TV and movie streaming service in the U.S. and Canada. Dedicated to providing all people access to all the world’s stories, Tubi offers the largest collection of on-demand content, including over 275,000 premium movies and TV episodes and over 300 exclusive originals. With a passionate fanbase and over 97 million monthly active viewers, the company is committed to putting viewers first with free, accessible entertainment for all.

About the Team

We’re building a new Rust backend engineering team to help to build and maintain the growing Rust apps and tools to support Tubi’s business.

About the Role:

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer specializing in Rust to lead the evolution of our backend platform and tooling. This role will focus on developing and maintaining critical Rust-based systems such as Argos (our in-house serverless load testing platform, which have supported the success of Super Bowl), the internal data firewall, and other tools that improve our platform’s robustness, compliance, and developer experience.

In this role, you’ll architect and implement high-performance, secure, and scalable 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.

We’re particularly interested in engineers excited to learn and integrate AI-powered coding tools (e.g., Cursor, Copilot) into their daily workflow to boost velocity and code quality. Prior experience with such tools is a plus.

This is a hybrid role based in our San Francisco office.

What You'll Do:

  • Lead the design, development, and maintenance of Rust services and tools
  • Collaborate with other backend & client teams to deliver high performance & scalable components/services
  • Design and optimize systems for reliability, observability, and scale, with an emphasis on clean APIs and modular components
  • Explore and integrate AI-based development tools into engineering workflows; evangelize productivity best practices within the team
  • Partner with engineering leadership and cross-functional partners to drive technical vision and influence roadmap decisions
  • Mentor engineers and foster a culture of technical rigor, curiosity, and continuous learning

Your Background:

  • 7+ years of backend software development experience, including 3+ years using Rust in production environments
  • Solid experience with Rust common stack, including but not limited to Tokio, Axum, Tonic, Hyper, Bytes, Serde, Tracing, etc. Experience with pingora stack is a big plus
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and performance engineering
  • Experience with cloud-native technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, gRPC, CDN, S3, Terraform) and modern observability stacks
  • Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, Clickhouse, etc.)
  • Strong alignment with engineering craftsmanship — testing, documentation, reliability, and performance optimization
  • 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.

California Compensation

Base ($181,000 to $259,000/year) + Bonus + Long-Term Incentive Plan + Benefits

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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.

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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