Senior Broadcast Reliability Engineer

Overview of the Company

Fox Corporation produces and distributes 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. The company empowers a diverse range of creators to develop culturally significant content while building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise and strategic thinking.

Fox is pioneering the future of news, sports, and entertainment in the digital realm, aiming to disrupt the digital entertainment category and redefine the live experience for the next generation. This role is part of a new team that has full permission to reinvent, disrupt, and build in a highly collaborative and transparent environment.

The Senior Broadcast Reliability Engineer designs, develops, and evolves intelligent monitoring, automation, and observability platforms that power one of the nation’s premier broadcasters. Responsibilities include building highly reliable systems ensuring FOX content is delivered seamlessly across linear broadcast, Video on Demand, streaming, and emerging media platforms, leveraging AI-driven observability and advanced automation to improve operational efficiency, accelerate incident response, and enable predictive system reliability.

You care about your team and their diverse perspectives, are invested in their success, are excited by new technologies and their potential to change how things are done, possess an entrepreneur's spirit and enjoy problem solving, love getting stuff done (not just talking), and are willing to support a 24/7 broadcast operation with flexible coverage for live events.

• 5+ years of experience designing, developing, and supporting large‑scale broadcast, media, or mission‑critical technology environments focused on reliability, observability, and automation.
• Working knowledge of IP‑based broadcast infrastructure (e.g., SMPTE ST 2110, AMWA NMOS, multicast networking, and Precision Time Protocol).
• Expert‑level experience designing and developing software solutions for broadcast monitoring and control platforms, including protocol development, workflow automation, dashboards, and systems integration using C#, .NET, Python, and modern API technologies (REST, gRPC, SNMP, SOAP, TCP/UDP).
• Design, architect, and evolve enterprise monitoring, observability, and automation platforms supporting linear broadcast, streaming, cloud, and media production workflows.
• Lead the implementation and optimization of intelligent monitoring solutions that leverage AI/ML techniques for anomaly detection, predictive analytics, event correlation, and operational automation.
• Drive software engineering best practices including source control, CI/CD, automated testing, and code reviews.
• Experience leveraging generative AI and large language models to accelerate software development, operational automation, troubleshooting, knowledge management, and engineering workflows.
• Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex cross‑domain issues impacting live broadcast operations and major live events.
• Architect resilient, highly available broadcast systems focusing on redundancy, scalability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
• Develop automation and orchestration solutions that reduce operational overhead and improve system reliability across hybrid on‑premises and cloud environments.
• Lead technical evaluations, proof‑of‑concept initiatives, and adoption of emerging technologies in monitoring, observability, automation, and AI‑assisted operations.
• Mentor engineers and establish technical standards, documentation, and operational best practices across the Broadcast Reliability organization.
• Partner with Engineering, Operations, Product, and Production teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Drive continuous improvement through incident management, root cause analysis, reliability engineering practices, and post‑incident reviews.
• Participate in on‑call rotations and provide technical leadership during high‑profile live productions and major broadcast…