Senior Production Engineer

Lucasfilm is looking for an infrastructure engineer with full-stack Python development experience to join a motivated and flexible Production Software team. The developers in Lucasfilm Information Systems (IS) build workflow-driven applications that allow our users to efficiently create movies, TV shows, magazines, books, and games. We're hiring humble experts to join a team of well-rounded developers that thrive in an informal environment, one in which managers are there to support the process and fill in the gaps, so that developers are free to do their jobs. 

We support a broad range of users–from non-technical cast and crew, who just need tools to securely access scripts or other reference; to full-time digital asset managers, whose whole workday is spent performing complex administrative tasks in these same systems; to industry-leading artists and production staff, who need our tools to blend seamlessly into their specialized workflows.

Our core digital asset management platform is currently being adopted by new users within Lucasfilm, and extended to other Disney divisions.  You’d be working closely with our principal infrastructure engineer to support this growth in our userbase and dataset by enhancing scalability, and by helping develop, extend, and secure our AWS infrastructure–in support of our 10-person Production Software team.  You’d also be collaborating with other parts of IS, including an infrastructure engineer supporting a separate set of tools, and the broader IT and software development community at Lucasfilm and Disney.

This role is considered Hybrid, which means the employee will work 2-3 days onsite at a Company designated location and occasionally from home.

What We’re Looking For

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps/SRE/Infrastructure engineering, including:

• Designing and building AWS infrastructure and cloud-native applications and services

• IAM, and securing and integrating services

• Infrastructure as code: Terraform and tools like Ansible

• Security orientation, and experience working with and protecting sensitive data

• 5+ years of broader professional software development experience:

• Strong Python skillset, with demonstrated contributions to significant Python applications

• Experience with Python web and API frameworks

• Database/SQL/ORM experience

• Linux proficiency

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, other technical degree, or equivalent

Nice to Have: 

• Expertise in core technologies used by our team, including Vue, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Postgres, Redis, Solr, Celery, Aspera, Lambda, and Docker

• Familiarity supporting film/tv/print media/game production processes and culture

• Experience with Digital Asset Management and Production Workflow tools

• Experience with media: transcode, colorspace management, playback optimization

• Single page web app experience with modern JavaScript frameworks

• Experience with async Python

• Pride in increasing test coverage of codebase

About IS

Our Lucasfilm Information Systems team values pride and earnestness, idealism and pragmatism, and focusing on the customer as much as the code. We have a "no arrogance" policy and want to hire awesome people to work in a great department. We love source control, testing and Linux. We value Scout Rule coding ("leave the code cleaner than you found it") and finding the right tool for the right job. We're at a company that has used Python for nearly 30 years, and balancing legacy systems and future needs is a daily battle, but that is the nature of software—reading code is as important as writing it.  We are continuously refining our processes and encourage our self-learning developers to explore tools, techniques, and other sorts of meta-development to make themselves more productive.

You'll be part of a group that gets along well, whether it's tackling a technical issue, enjoying a walk in the Presidio, or exchanging DIY feats in our community messaging channels. We exist to support fast moving production companies, and you will work with the knowledge that whatever you write will immediately make the job easier for someone down the hall, at Skywalker Ranch, or at one of our studios or location shoots around the world.