--- title: 'Engineering Manager at Tubi' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/engineering-manager-tubi-san-francisco-vzdtgft1300z' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-14' --- # Engineering Manager at Tubi - **Company:** Tubi - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-10-09 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/tubitv/jobs/8267766 ## Job description Engineering Manager (Tubi, Inc.; San Francisco, California): Manage and mentor a team of backend software engineers. Conduct performance reviews, career development planning, and hiring. Establish engineering best practices for development, code review, and operational excellence. Promote sustainable on-call practices and production ownership. Lead the design and evolution of high-performance, client-facing APIs supporting homepage, search, autoplay, content detail, and other core user experiences. Architect and maintain distributed microservices running in Kubernetes. Drive architectural decisions for API gateway, traffic routing, data sanitization, and service-to-service communication (e.g., gRPC, REST). Ensure systems are optimized for scalability, availability, observability, and security. Define long-term technical direction for backend infrastructure supporting large-scale events and global traffic spikes. Oversee metadata management systems, including content licensing validation and availability window enforcement. Guide third-party data ingestion, normalization, and feed integration across multiple partner platforms. Lead backend support for multi-platform integrations (e.g., Google, FireTV, Apple, Samsung, Vizio, and others). Own and evolve unified API gateway and data firewall capabilities, including traffic control, compliance enforcement, and observability standards. Establish and improve failover and disaster-recovery strategies to ensure zero-downtime deployments and high system availability. Partner with Product, Legal, ML, and Client Platform teams to align backend architecture with business and regulatory requirements. Support personalization, recommendation, and content presentation capabilities through backend system design. Provide technical leadership during high-traffic campaigns and major global events. Establish standards for responsible use of AI-assisted development tools. Explore AI-enabled system optimization, anomaly detection, and developer tooling improvements. Ensure AI integration aligns with security, privacy, and compliance requirements. Position supervises a team of Senior Software Engineer, Backend, Software Engineer, Associate Software Engineer, and Senior Software Engineers. Hybrid permitted pursuant to company policy. Salary: $275,176 – 302,693.60 per year Education Requirements: Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field. Experience Requirements: Five (5) years of experience as a Backend Software Engineer, Software Engineer, or related occupation. Must have experience with the following: designing and operating high-availability distributed systems serving large-scale production traffic; building and maintaining RESTful APIs and gRPC-based services; working with Kubernetes in production environments; implementing observability solutions (logging, metrics, and monitoring systems); Elixir; Rust in backend services; designing API gateways, proxy services, or data firewall systems; and building metadata management systems and content platform services. To Apply: Any interested applicant may click on the APPLY NOW button above to apply for this position. ## #LI-DNI Tubi is a division of Fox Corporation, and the FOX Employee Benefits summarized [here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I_N5Kz_AWxSaiTvS-jr1gqzKLXM3krY3/view?usp=sharing), 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. 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 collection of Hollywood movies and TV shows, thousands of creator-led stories and hundreds of Tubi Originals made for the most passionate fans. Headquartered in San Francisco and founded in 2014, Tubi is part of Tubi Media Group, a division of Fox Corporation. 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. ## About Tubi ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Tubi is a free, ad-supported streaming service offering a massive library of Hollywood movies, TV shows, live channels, and original content to over 100 million monthly active users. - **Entity Type**: Public (subsidiary of Fox Corporation, NASDAQ: FOXA) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2014 - **Founders**: Farhad Massoudi, Thomas Ahn Hicks ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Entertainment, Streaming, Advertising-Supported Video on Demand (AVOD) - **Target customers**: B2C (consumers seeking free entertainment) and B2B (advertisers and media partners) - **Mission or purpose statement**: "Access to all the world’s stories" – providing free, high-quality entertainment for diverse audiences [foxcareers.com](https://www.foxcareers.com/OurBrands/Tubi). ## Products & Services - **[Tubi Platform]**: Free streaming service available on over 30 devices. Offers the world’s largest free catalog of 250,000+ movies and TV episodes, over 250 live channels, and a growing slate of Tubi Originals. Available in the US, Canada, Mexico, Latin America, the United Kingdom, and Australia [corporate.tubitv.com](https://corporate.tubitv.com/). - **[Tubi for Advertisers]**: An ad-supported model allowing brands to reach a large, engaged audience with targeted advertising solutions. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (Tubi is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fox Corporation; Fox Corp’s market cap is ~$17B as of mid-2025). - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of **$680M** (2025 estimate); Monthly Active Users reached **100 million** as of June 17, 2025 [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tubi-tv). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Fox Corporation (parent company); Tubi Media Group (division); prior investors raised $73.2M in total funding across 4 rounds before acquisition. - **Growth Signals**: MAU grew from ~80M (May 2024) to 97M (Jan 2025) to 100M (June 2025); headcount increased 18.3% YoY to ~670 employees; ranked 33rd in Fast Company’s “World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies of 2025”; expanding international footprint (LATAM, Europe, Australia). ## Competitive Advantages - **Massive free library** – largest collection of free movies and TV shows among AVOD services. - **Fox ownership** provides deep content partnerships, advertising sales infrastructure, and financial stability. - **Device ubiquity** – available on 30+ platforms (smart TVs, mobile, web, gaming consoles). - **Personalized experience** powered by machine learning and AI to recommend content and optimize ad delivery. ## Strategic Focus - **International growth** – expanding in Latin America, Europe, and Australia with local content and partnerships. - **Original content** – investing in Tubi Originals to attract and retain viewers. - **Live TV & events** – growing linear channel offerings and live sports/events (e.g., recent MLB deal). - **AI/ML innovation** – hiring staff and principal ML engineers to improve personalization, search, and ad tech. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Values-driven with five core principles: Deliver Delight, Stay Nimble, Own It, Trusted Partner, Swing Big [corporate.tubitv.com](https://corporate.tubitv.com/). Emphasis on speed, ownership, and collaboration. - **Work model**: Hybrid, remote, and in-office options available across multiple locations (San Francisco HQ, Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Chicago, London, Beijing). Engineering and product roles are mostly hybrid in SF/LA/NY; some roles are fully remote. - **Benefits**: Healthcare coverage from day one, generous parental leave, childcare/eldercare support, wellness reimbursement, education reimbursement, retirement savings matching, financial planning services, competitive compensation. - **Engineering culture**: Heavy investment in ML infrastructure, distributed systems, Rust, and site reliability. Many staff and principal-level roles open in ML, backend, and AI tooling. - **Growth**: Rapid headcount expansion (18% YoY) and chance to work on a platform used by 100M users. ## Sources 1. [corporate.tubitv.com](https://corporate.tubitv.com/) – About Us, values, leadership, international availability 2. [corporate.tubitv.com/careers/](https://corporate.tubitv.com/careers/) – Benefits, locations, diversity statement 3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tubi-tv) – Employee count, revenue, funding, industry classification 4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/tubitv](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/tubitv) – Open job listings (engineering, product, legal, marketing) 5. 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