Senior Software Engineer (Rust)

About The Role

: We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer, ideally specializing in Rust, to lead the evolution of our backend platform and tooling. This role will focus on developing and maintaining critical Rust-based tools and infrastructure which could bring Tubi to its next era. 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. , 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

: 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: 4+ years of backend software development experience, including 1+ 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. , Kubernetes, gRPC, CDN, S3, Terraform) and modern observability stacks. ).

Strong alignment with engineering craftsmanship — testing, documentation, reliability, and performance optimization.

Requirements

, the pay range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is listed annually below.

Benefits

including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off and other

in accordance with applicable plan documents.

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. The following distinctions below outline the differences between the Tubi and FOX

: For US-based non-exempt Tubi employees, the FOX Employee

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.