Software Engineer - Ad Engineering

About the Role

*This role is a New York City based HYBRID position. Candidates must be located in NYC, and willing to come into the office on a hybrid basis, three times a week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday).*

Fubo is seeking an enthusiastic Software Engineer to join our Ads Engineering team. You'll help build and scale the backend infrastructure and services that power Fubo's advertising platform — no prior ad-tech experience required, we'll ramp you up on the domain.

As an engineer on this team, you'll work on business-critical distributed systems and data problems: services that interface with ad-decisioning systems, video player vendors, ad routers, and server-side ad insertion partners. You'll help increase the reliability and observability of this infrastructure and build tooling that lets our Advertising Operations and Sales teams move fast in a complex ecosystem.

What You'll Do

• Build and support our ads engineering infrastructure and services
• Drive continuous improvements to the reliability, performance, accuracy, and security of services
• Solve distributed systems engineering and data problems, utilizing the best tools and technologies
• Build shared libraries, tools, or frameworks that improve engineering solutions
• Implement unit and integrations tests to maintain confidence in the platform's stability
• Identify and execute on opportunities to develop software to help increase efficiency, visibility, and performance of our ad technology
• Extract and aggregate data from a variety of sources into data warehouses
• Leverage AI tools across the development lifecycle — coding, testing, debugging, and documentation — to move faster without lowering our quality bar

Minimum Qualifications and Experience

• Strong CS foundation
• Fluency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar) as part of your daily workflow, with the judgment to review, test, and validate AI-generated code before it ships
• Strong software engineering and communication skills
• 3+ years of experience delivering production-quality software
• Expertise in building microservices in Golang, Java, C++ or similar
• Familiarity with modern code-deployment toolchains (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Hands-on experience with relational and non-relational databases — expected to ingest large datasets and make them accessible to others
• Professional experience using modern log/metric aggregation software (e.g. Datadog, Elasticsearch + Kibana, Splunk)
• Experience working with external stakeholders

Ideal Qualifications and Experience

• Deep passion for the distributed systems space and solving complex problems
• Familiarity with microservice architectures and experience building infrastructure platforms and tools
• Experience building with LLM APIs or agentic workflows (e.g., AI-powered internal tools, MCP integrations, automation agents)
• Previous experience working with online advertising or previous ad-tech experience
• Familiarity with VAST, VMAP, SSAI
• Familiarity with video ad servers like Freewheel, Publica, or Google Ad Manager
• Experience writing and deploying cloud-agnostic code (e.g. GCP, AWS)