Staff Backend Engineer Job at Fox News Media (New York)

Staff Backend Engineer

Fox News Media

Location:
United States , New York

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

179000.00 - 284000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

At AdRise, we build cutting-edge advertising capabilities for Tubi and across the Fox portfolio of brands across Sports, Entertainment and News, and including Fox One, the new direct to consumer streaming service. We are enhancing the in-house ad tech stack by optimizing server-side delivery, building ML-driven targeting systems, and enabling content-personalized ad experiences that respond to what viewers actually watch. From real-time decisioning to data collaboration with AWS and Databricks, we are creating a smarter, more dynamic ad tech ecosystem. The problems are complex, the visibility is high, and the platform is built for impact.

Job Responsibility:

Design, build, and operate the media processing platform for ad creatives: transcoding, packaging, transcription, brand detection, content rating, and ad media review
contribute to system design
build and maintain critical online services and pipelines
be responsible for autoscaling and reliability to ensure timely, low-latency processing at scale
architect and evolve microservices and workflows that power the ad media processing system
author architecture design documents
participate in reviews
own service availability, p99 latency, and throughput SLOs
drive autoscaling and capacity planning for high-traffic and high-throughput processing
implement multi-region readiness: redundancy, traffic shifting, canary/blue-green rollout, and safe rollback
define gRPC/protobuf and event/queue contracts and compatibility policy
enforce deadlines, timeouts, and retries
implement resilience patterns including idempotency, retries, timeouts, fallbacks, rate limiting, and circuit breakers to ensure reliability
perform performance modeling and capacity planning
forecast peak events and growth
reduce p99/p999 latency via concurrency control, batching, prefetching, and adaptive timeouts
design data locality and artifact caching
manage Redis use, cleanup, and key handling
build burst-tolerant workflows with queues/streams
enforce backpressure and graceful degradation
design, implement, and maintain autoscaling policies, validate with load tests
optimize cost/perf: profiling, CPU/memory tuning, autoscaling tuning, and efficient data access
build comprehensive observability into services and pipelines through metrics, tracing, and structured logging
define and maintain SLIs/SLOs, set actionable alerts, and ensure system reliability through robust monitoring
participate in on-call rotations and incident response
lead postmortems and drive long-term fixes
practice chaos/failure testing, load tests
maintain runbooks and readiness checks
implement secure authentication/authorization, secret management, and data privacy best practices
ensure data privacy/retention and auditability
partner with Security and Legal on policies

Requirements:

8+ years building production backend systems
experience owning critical online services
expertise in distributed systems, concurrency, and performance engineering
proficiency in Golang or Elixir (both preferred)
strong code quality and review standards
deep experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)
strong with PostgreSQL and Redis
streaming/queueing experience a plus
experience with object storage and queues/streams
track record of raising reliability (SLOs, error budgets) and improving on-call quality

Nice to have:

Media processing expertise (transcoding/packaging: ffmpeg, HLS/DASH
brand/logo detection
content safety/rating
ad media review)
led large incidents and resilience programs (chaos, fault injection, multi-region)
proven cost optimization at scale and data-driven performance tuning
experience with experimentation platforms, traffic controls, and privacy-aware data practices

What we offer:

annual discretionary bonus
medical/dental/vision
insurance
a 401(k) plan
paid time off

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
March 04, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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