Staff Backend Software Engineer

Job summary

OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY Fox*** Under the FOX banner, we produce and distribute content through some of the world’s leading and most valued brands, including: FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations and Tubi Media Group.

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• the pay rate/range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education,

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• Lead design and implementation of RESTful APIs and async workers(Celery) for publishing, media processing, SSAI and VAST-related workflows, imports, and reporting.
• Own reliability and performance of distributed systems and workloads: queue design, deduplication, chord and dispatch patterns, prefetch tuning, backpressure, and operational logging that supports incident response.
• Drive data and integration decisions across PostgreSQL, Redis-backed coordination, object storage, and systems such as data warehouse-backed reporting (batching, limits, and cost-aware query patterns).
• Lead or significantly contribute to Terraform and AWS changes affecting the application: EB tiers, IAM, networking, WAF and rate limits, observability hooks, and phased rollouts.
• Raise the bar on observability: structured logging, Prometheus-style metrics, Grafana and CloudWatch usage, and alarms wired to actionable on-call signals
• Define and evolve testing strategy for critical paths (unit and regression around task helpers and services, AI-driven testing), CI-friendly checks, and operational readiness for risky migrations.
• Represent backend concerns in planning, design reviews, and incident-style discussions; communicate trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical partners.
• Anticipate scaling and complexity: propose phased migrations, safer defaults, and long-term maintainability over short-term hacks.
• WHAT YOU WILL NEED
• 10+ years of professional backend or backend-heavy engineering experience in platform systems, or equivalent depth, including meaningful ownership of large services or platforms.
• Strong Python and a track record designing service-oriented systems: APIs, background jobs, idempotency, failure modes, and capacity thinking.
• Deep hands-on experience with Celery (or similar) and message brokers (AMQP and RabbitMQ-class), including heartbeats, retries, queue splits, and operational debugging.

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