Backend / Service Engineer

6 Months ago • All levels • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Backend/Service Engineer at Scanline VFX, you'll build and operate resilient backend services, applying expertise in distributed systems, microservices, and deployment practices. Responsibilities include architecting, designing, building, and deploying complex services and APIs; gathering requirements across departments; writing technical briefs; partnering with leadership to schedule tasks; implementing observability solutions; designing SLIs/SLOs; developing CI/CD pipelines; creating release processes; and mentoring team members. You'll ensure services remain scalable, observable, and maintainable, working in air-gapped environments and contributing to a VFX pipeline. The ideal candidate possesses strong software engineering and production operations experience, with expertise in Python, RESTful APIs, Kubernetes, and SRE principles.
Must have:
  • 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
Good to have:
  • VFX pipeline familiarity
  • Event queuing (Kafka/RabbitMQ)
  • Workflow orchestration (Airflow/Dagster)

Job Details

As a Services Engineer, you will be responsible for building and operating resilient backend services in our environment. You will apply your deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices architectures, and modern deployment practices to establish technical standards and empower other developers. The ideal candidate brings together strong software engineering capabilities with production operations experience - equally adept at implementing RESTful APIs in Python, establishing reliable deployment pipelines, and applying SRE principles to maintain service reliability. You will help shape our technical direction while ensuring our services remain scalable, observable, and maintainable.

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
About Us
Scanline VFX is an award-winning leader in the visual effects industry with 7 studios worldwide, including London, Los Angeles, Montreal, Munich, Seoul, Stuttgart, and Vancouver. Since our beginning in 1989, we strive to set the highest standard of quality in everything we do. Through innovation, we generate solutions for our clients and raise the bar — both within our workplace and throughout our industry.

We look for explorers, people who are willing to go to new places and are open to testing, learning and iterating as they go. We believe great ideas come from everyone, so we actively encourage team members to ask questions and present their ideas.

Eyeline Studios
Eyeline Studios, our virtual production division, is rethinking the future of real-time filmmaking by providing content creators with unmatched flexibility. Learn more.

Powered by Netflix
Netflix’s investment in our pipeline, infrastructure, and workforce allows us to continue to push the boundaries of what is possible in visual effects. In addition to working on projects for Netflix, we continue to work with a variety of long-standing and new clients.

Come as you are
We are committed to ensuring fair and equal treatment of your application. When you apply for a role with us, you will receive consideration based solely on your qualifications.

We will only consider applicants based in British Columbia, or those willing to relocate.

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