Job Specifications
About The Role
Tubi's Core Experience Backend team is responsible for building the high-performance, secure, and scalable systems that power our business. We have built disaster-resilient systems to ensure Tubi APIs continue to perform even under extreme traffic conditions. Our team and services have delivered seamless operations for massive events such as the Super Bowl and World Cup while consistently delivering a great experience to our viewers.
On this team, you will participate in major campaigns, contribute to our critical backend services, support multiple platforms, and play a key role in shaping and refining the overall backend architecture.
This is a hybrid role based out of our Toronto office. You must be willing to travel to our Toronto office three days/week.
What You'll Do
We are looking for a software engineer who is proactive, collaborative, and pragmatic with a passion for solving real-world problems. In this role, you will:
Design and implement high-performance backend services in Elixir
Architect and evolve microservices and distributed systems in Kubernetes.
Optimize systems for scale, resilience, observability, and security
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver pragmatic solutions to complex problems
Explore and integrate AI-based development tools into daily workflows
Work across service boundaries, own critical architecture/service design, and help evolve Tubi's backend system.
Your Background
Experience in Elixir or strong background in other backend or functional programming languages
Familiarity with gRPC/Protocol Buffers, RESTful API design, Kubernetes, and observability solutions
Experience designing distributed systems with clean APIs and modular components
System design and architecture skills with emphasis on reliability and performance
Experience with continuous delivery of software systems
Bonus / Preferred
Rust programming experience
Extensive experience with Elixir in production environments
Familiarity with Pingora or Nginx
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes
The AI Mandate: AI-Driven Development Practice
This role goes beyond traditional engineering: you will extensively use AI to build the backend stack. The goal is to unlock smarter execution, faster delivery, and automation at scale, while ensuring responsible use of these technologies. This includes but not limited to:
AI-Augmented Backend Development: Using AI-assisted coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) to accelerate development while maintaining rigorous standards for correctness, security, and performance. You will set the bar for how backend engineers harness AI to iterate faster, write safer code, and document systems more effectively.
AI-Enhanced Architecture & Optimization: Exploring how AI can assist in system design, performance tuning, and anomaly detection across Tubi’s distributed backend. You will prototype and integrate AI-powered optimizations that improve throughput, reduce latency, and detect inefficiencies in large-scale microservice architectures.
AI-Driven Developer Experience: Contributing to internal tools and platforms that use AI to improve the daily developer workflow, ranging from automated code reviews and test generation to smarter observability dashboards. You will help evolve Tubi’s backend development culture into an AI-native practice.
Pursuant to local pay disclosure requirements, the pay range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is as 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, vacation/paid time off and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents.
Toronto, Canada
$137,200 - $196,000 CAD
Benefits
Tubi Media Group is a division of Fox Corporation, and the FOX Employee Benefits summarized here, covers the majority of employee benefits. The following distinctions below outline the differences between the Tubi and FOX benefits:
For all salaried 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 (top up in Canada) 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 (if applicable). This time is 100% paid through a combination of any applicable government 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 c
About the Company
Tubi is the most watched free TV and movie streaming service in the U.S., dedicated to providing all people access to all the world's stories. As a leading ad-supported video-on-demand service, the company engages diverse audiences through a personalized experience and the world's largest content library of over 275,000 movies and TV episodes, a growing collection of Tubi Originals, and nearly 250 FAST channels. Tubi is part of the Tubi Media Group, a division of Fox Corporation that oversees the company's digital businesses
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