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Staff Backend Software Engineer

full time · Staff

$143,000 – $190,000

Listed on Supercast’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

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. The full posting is on their site.

Skills this role names

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What they ask for

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