Backend / Service Engineer
Job Summary
Job Description
- Expert Python development
- API design and development
- CI/CD pipeline experience
- Kubernetes experience
- SQL/NoSQL database knowledge
- Observability solutions implementation
- SRE principles understanding
- Air-gapped environment experience
- VFX pipeline familiarity
- Event queuing (Kafka/RabbitMQ)
- Workflow orchestration (Airflow/Dagster)
12 skills required
Job Details
Key Responsibilities
- Architect, design, build and deploy complex services and APIs to be used by other parts of the VFX pipeline and development team
- Gather requirements across large collaboration efforts that span multiple departments and/or disciplines
- Write technical briefs and user documentation
- Partner with software development leadership and pipeline team to identify and schedule tasks
- Implement and maintain observability solutions including metrics, traces, and logging systems
- Design and enforce SLIs/SLOs for critical services
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines in air-gapped environments
- Create and document release processes and procedures
- Mentor team members on service deployment and operational best practices
Qualifications
- Expert in Python development
- Experience designing and developing services and APIs in a scalable and maintainable way
- Familiarity with automated build and deployment systems in Gitlab or similar
- Hands on experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration systems
- Knowledge of SQL/noSQL databases and ability to author schemas
- Demonstrated ability to work on unfamiliar technologies
- Experience implementing observability solutions using tools like OpenTelemetry and Prometheus
- Understanding of SRE principles and practices
- Familiarity with VFX Pipelines and production needs
- Experience with event queuing and consumption services such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with workflow orchestration frameworks (e.g., Apache Airflow, Dagster)
- Demonstrated ability to work in restricted/air-gapped environments
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About The Company
Scanline VFX is an award-winning, global leader in the visual effects industry with studios in 7 core locations including London, Los Angeles, Montreal, Munich, Seoul, Stuttgart, and Vancouver. From humble beginnings over 30 years ago, we’ve grown to a team of over 1,200 made up of diverse nationalities from around the world. We believe in the power of storytelling and are committed to helping filmmakers realize their artistic vision. Underpinned by a commitment to innovation, collaboration and long-standing partnerships, we continue to develop innovative tools, techniques and technologies, to offer filmmakers the ultimate in creative freedom. Eyeline Studios, Scanline’s virtual production division, is rethinking the future of real-time filmmaking by providing content creators with unmatched flexibility.
Netflix’s investment in Scanline’s pipeline, infrastructure, and workforce allows Scanline to continue to push the boundaries of what is possible in VFX. In addition to working on projects for Netflix, Scanline continues to work with a variety of long-standing and new clients outside of Netflix.
Established in 1989 in Munich, Scanline became well-known for our ability to create photorealistic natural phenomena such as fire, smoke and water, having developed our proprietary fluid simulation software, Flowline. Scanline was the sole developer of Flowline and in 2008, and was the recipient of a Scientific and Technical Achievement Academy Award® for the software.
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