Adrise 🔥 - Sr. Data Engineer - 180-220K + 20%

Senior Backend Engineer

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. We empower a diverse range of creators to imagine

and develop culturally significant content, while building an organization that thrives on creative

ideas, operational expertise, and strategic thinking.

AdRise is FOX's core ad tech platform, built to unify streaming and linear advertising across

Tubi, FOX Sports, FOX News Media, and FOX Entertainment. Before AVOD became an industry

standard, AdRise helped power Tubi's growth from the ground up by developing real-time ad

delivery and dynamic targeting infrastructure that scaled to serve millions. That same tech

foundation is now fueling FOX's cross-portfolio monetization strategy.

We are rebuilding the ad stack for video by optimizing server-side delivery, building ML-driven

targeting systems, and enabling content-personalized ad experiences that respond to what

viewers actually watch. From real-time decisioning to data collaboration with AWS and

Snowflake, we are creating a smarter, more dynamic ad tech ecosystem. The problems are

complex, the visibility is high, and the platform is built for impact. If you want to work at the

center of streaming monetization on systems that touch billions of impressions and shape the

next generation of personalized advertising, this is your platform.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Ads Delivery team at AdRise builds the systems that turn advertiser budgets into effective,

well-paced ad outcomes. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design, build, and operate

distributed backend services that determine when, where, and how ads are delivered across a

growing ecosystem of partner applications, including Tubi and FOX’s direct-to-consumer

platforms.

You will collaborate closely with Machine Learning, Data Science, and Ad Serving teams to

implement algorithms for pacing, planning, and optimization, while continuously improving the

scalability, reliability, and performance of our ad delivery platform. This role sits at the core of

FOX’s monetization strategy, with direct impact on revenue and user experience at a massive

scale.

A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

● Design and develop scalable, distributed backend services that power ad delivery

across FOX’s streaming platforms

● Build and optimize systems responsible for ad pacing, forecasting, and delivery

decisioning in near real-time

● Collaborate with ML and Data Science teams to productionize algorithms for campaign

optimization and performance

● Improve system performance, reliability, and scalability to support hundreds of billions

of ad impressions

● Develop and maintain integrations with data pipelines, messaging systems, and

real-time streaming frameworks

● Own services end-to-end, including architecture, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing

optimization

● Contribute to best practices in system design, code quality, and operational excellence

● Partner cross-functionally with product, infrastructure, and ad tech teams to evolve the

platform

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

● Minimum five years of production experience designing and building scalable

distributed systems using JVM languages such as Scala, Java, or Kotlin (Scala preferred)

● Strong experience with relational databases (e.g., Postgres), caching systems (e.g.,

Redis), and message brokers (e.g., Kafka or Kinesis)

● Experience building and operating near real-time, high-performance, fault-tolerant

services

● Hands-on experience with big data streaming frameworks such as Apache Spark or

Flink

● Strong understanding of distributed systems design, concurrency, and system

trade-offs

● Proven ownership mindset with a focus on building reliable, maintainable systems

● Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and adapt to evolving technical challenges

NICE TO HAVE, BUT NOT A DEALBREAKER

● Experience in ad tech, including ad serving, targeting, delivery, or measurement

systems

● Familiarity with Kubernetes, Kustomize, Terraform, and modern infrastructure tooling

● At least two years of experience working with Akka technologies, particularly clustering

● Experience working on high-scale consumer-facing platforms or streaming ecosystems

● Exposure to ML-driven systems or data-intensive applications