Backend/Service Engineer

1 Month ago • All levels • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Backend/Service Engineer, you'll build and operate resilient backend services, applying your understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and modern deployment practices. You'll architect, design, build, and deploy complex services and APIs, gather requirements across departments, write technical briefs, and partner with leadership. Responsibilities include implementing observability solutions, designing SLIs/SLOs, developing CI/CD pipelines in air-gapped environments, creating release processes, and mentoring team members. You'll ensure services remain scalable, observable, and maintainable, contributing to Scanline VFX's technical direction within their VFX pipeline.
Must have:
  • Expert Python development
  • API design & development
  • CI/CD experience (Gitlab)
  • Kubernetes/Container orchestration
  • SQL/NoSQL database experience
  • Observability solution implementation (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus)
  • SRE principles and practices
  • Excellent communication skills
Good to have:
  • VFX pipeline experience
  • Kafka/RabbitMQ experience
  • Workflow orchestration (Airflow, Dagster)
  • Air-gapped environment experience

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 (will cease to operate by year's end), Seoul, 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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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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