Senior Software Engineer, Fubo

• We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a strong backend development foundation and a good understanding of infrastructure fundamentals and principles
• This role requires a hands-on engineer who is comfortable operating across both software delivery and system reliability
• 6+ years of experience delivering production-quality software in complex, high-traffic environments, with expertise in Go (primary), Python, Java, or similar languages
• Strong foundation in distributed systems, microservices architecture, and event-driven design patterns
• Proven infrastructure skills, including monitoring, alerting, logging, and incident response best practices
• Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs, and working with relational or SQL-like databases
• Familiarity with video playback services and streaming technologies such as HLS, DASH, CMAF, SSAI, DRM, and signaling protocols like SCTE-224, SCTE-35, POIS
• Skilled in deploying and managing systems in cloud environments (e.g. , GCP, AWS), with Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent tools for observability and infrastructure-as-code
• Experience with caching strategies, CDN optimizations, and backend performance tuning is a strong plus
• An effective communicator and collaborator, comfortable mentoring others and driving cross-functional projects end to end

Desirable

• In this role, you’ll play a critical part in building and maintaining scalable, reliable, and performant systems that power our video infrastructure and core services
• The VidIOS team manages all aspects of linear video, including ingest, storage, distribution, advertising, scheduling, and client playback at scale
• This is an exciting opportunity for a senior software engineer to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, designing efficient systems to meet key business needs
• You will work closely with our Streaming Media Operations (Acquisition, Encoding, Operations), Advertising Engineering, Platform, Product Management, Players, Content Distribution, and Sales teams to develop integrated solutions
• Design and develop high-throughput, low-latency video backend services, with an emphasis on scalable architecture, efficient data processing, and fault-tolerant system behavior under peak traffic conditions
• Instrument services with detailed metrics, distributed tracing, structured logging, and health checks to support real-time observability and actionable alerting
• Own the reliability lifecycle—from designing SLIs/SLOs to leading incident response, triage, on-call rotations, and long-term reliability engineering initiatives
• Architect scalable and event-driven services and microservice to support millions of concurrent viewers
• Collaborate deeply with SRE and partner teams to optimize service performance across edge caches, CDNs, and cloud regions, with attention to cost, failover resilience, and traffic shaping
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and technical planning to ensure long-term system health, maintainability, and resilience