# Staff Backend Software Engineer

Hiring organization: [Supercast](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/supercast)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/cd89103a-727b-4023-ac5e-b00efcda0209

Listed on Supercast's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Staff
- Salary: 143000 – 190000 USD per year

## Summary

A Staff-level backend engineering role at Fox Corporation building scalable audio/video hosting and media processing systems across AWS and GCP. This position suits experienced platform engineers who excel at designing distributed systems, leading cross-team initiatives, and can guide the integration of AI tools into backend development practices.

_Our summary, not Supercast's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Elasticsearch, Git, GitHub Actions, Grafana, gRPC, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Pytest, Python, RabbitMQ, Redis, Retrofit (REST), Terraform, TypeScript

## Required

- 10+ years of backend engineering experience in platform systems
- Strong Python expertise with service-oriented system design
- Deep hands-on experience with Celery and message brokers like RabbitMQ
- Advanced SQL skills with PostgreSQL
- Practical Redis usage beyond basic caching
- Substantial cloud infrastructure experience with both GCP and AWS
- Comfort leading Terraform infrastructure changes
- Docker and container deployment experience
- CI/CD experience in cloud environments
- Security-minded engineering practices
- Written communication and ability to raise team quality
- Experience in fast-moving environments or 0-to-1 product development
- Demonstrated ability to drive cross-team alignment and influence without authority
- Track record establishing engineering standards and best practices

## Nice to have

- Container orchestration and multi-cloud networking
- Authorization at scale (RBAC, ABAC, policy engines)
- Druid, BigQuery, or large-scale analytical query experience
- Domain experience in media, entertainment, creator economy, CTV, OTT, SSAI, VAST, CDN, or edge processing
- AI-driven testing approaches

Apply on Supercast's site: https://fox.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Domestic/job/USA--NY---New-York---37-W-28th-St/Staff-Backend-Software-Engineer_R50033532