Expression of Interest - Sr. Software Engineer, Pipeline Infrastructure
$141,900–$190,300 year
On-siteBurbank Los Angeles County, California, United States
Job Summary
Submit your resume for future consideration for this Expression of Interest role at Walt Disney Animation Studios. This posting is not currently open for active hiring, though we anticipate the position may become available in the future. If selected, you would partner with technical directors and software engineers to design and implement new studio infrastructure for film production, working alongside artists to develop full-stack solutions ranging from core compute to management interfaces. Projects include production data management, workflow orchestration, and storage solutions. The ideal candidate would demonstrate strong software design skills in languages like Go, Python, or Java, with experience building scalable, fault-tolerant architectures using agile methodologies.
Required Qualifications
- BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or other related field; or comparable industry experience
- Minimum of 5 years' experience designing and developing service-oriented infrastructure
- Ability to demonstrate strong software design and engineering skills
- Familiar with enterprise integration patterns and their appropriate use
- Must be competent in the design and implementation of maintainable code in two or more of the follow languages; Go, Scala, Java, Python, Rust, and C++11 or later
- Experience building highly scalable and fault tolerant service architectures
- Able to identify, research, integrate, and adapt new technologies quickly as business needs evolve
- Exemplary communication, team working and problem-solving skills, balancing the timeliness of solutions with their sustainability
- Able to prioritize competing demands based on business value
- Effective listener: able to engage with engineers and artists to understand their requirements and infer practical solutions
Desired Qualifications
- Experienced developing high-performance, highly concurrent, asynchronous code
- Relational, graph, and key/value networked storage engines (FoundationDB, CockroachDB, JanusGraph, PostgreSQL, Neo4j)
- Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Asynchronous messaging technologies (Kafka, AMQP, Pulsar)
- Storage technologies (object stores, NFS, pNFS, Ceph, Gluster)
- RPC frameworks (gRPC, REST, SOAP)
- Concurrency patterns (actor/agent-based modeling or event driven architectures)
- Domain Driven Design workplace experience
- Command Query Responsibility Segregation pattern experience
- Linux, OS X, or BSD systems experience
- Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure (multi-cloud or shared on/off-prem systems experience)
- Comfortable with a polyglot programming language workplace
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