Staff Platforms Engineer

OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY

Fox Corporation

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.

JOB DESCRIPTION

ABOUT THE ROLE
As a Staff Platforms Engineer on the Enterprise Platforms Engineering team, you will play a critical role in shaping and scaling the developer experience across FOX’s engineering ecosystem through hands-on development and technical leadership. This team supports a wide range of internal and customer-facing services, including cloud account management, CI/CD platforms, full-stack applications, automation tooling, and emerging AI/agent-driven solutions.

This is a highly technical, hands-on role requiring deep expertise in backend and platform development within fast-paced environments. You will actively contribute production-level code across microservices, serverless architectures, and internal developer platforms, while leading initiatives that improve developer productivity, streamline workflows, and enable rapid, reliable software delivery. Your work will directly influence how engineers build, deploy, and operate software at scale.

A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead platform initiatives focused on improving developer experience, productivity, and velocity across engineering teams

• Develop and deliver high-quality, production-level applications across backend services, automation systems, and platform tooling, contributing as a hands-on software engineer in a highly technical, fast-paced development environment

• Serve as a technical lead for DevOps and platform engineers, providing guidance on architecture, tooling, and best practices

• Design and build scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP with a focus on usability and self-service

• Architect and develop CI/CD systems that enable fast, reliable, and repeatable deployments

• Build backend automation and internal developer tools to reduce friction in the development lifecycle

• Contribute to full-stack application development where needed

• Integrate with third-party SaaS platforms via APIs to enhance platform capabilities

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

• Prior senior-level software engineering experience in fast-paced, high-performing development environments

• Proven ability to lead and deliver complex platform and developer experience initiatives with minimal direction

• Strong Python development experience building production-grade services and tooling

• Deep backend development experience with serverless and microservice architectures (e.g., AWS Lambda, ECS, EKS)

• Hands-on experience developing with data stores including MongoDB, Redis, and DynamoDB

• Experience with application performance tuning and optimization in distributed systems

• Strong experience implementing structured application logging and observability best practices

• Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools and modern coding workflows

• Strong hands-on expertise with AWS and GCP cloud platforms

• Proficiency in modern frontend development frameworks such as Next.js or React

• Deep understanding of secure cloud architecture and modern development best practices

• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker

NICE TO HAVE, BUT NOT A DEALBREAKER

• Experience developing AI agents or working with AI-driven systems

• Experience building and managing GitHub Actions workflows

• Infrastructure as Code experience (e.g., Terraform)

• Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration

• Familiarity with SRE practices, including monitoring and observability systems

• Experience working within Agile development environments, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams and participating in iterative delivery cycles (e.g., sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives)

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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.

Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay rate/range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is $160,000.00-193,900.00 annually. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, various benefits, including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off, and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents. Benefits for Union represented employees will be in accordance with the applicable collective bargaining agreement.

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