Software Engineer

Job Description

Overview:

Part of the Disney Branded Television Group, Disney Television Animation is a high capacity digital animation television production studio. Because of Disney Television Animation's strong use of commercial and custom software technologies to create its animation products, our group's use of technology, engineering, development techniques and software is critical to its production operations and workflows.

We're looking for an intellectually curious, business-savvy, analytical powerhouse to join the Disney Television Animation Technology team as a Software Engineer (SE). In this role, you will be responsible for developing and supporting solutions across the various Disney Television Animation: Productions and Development

Responsibilities:

The SE is a software engineer responsible for designing and developing code/software solutions and maintaining existing code/software for the Television Animation business unit.

A high-level breakdown of the Software Engineer's responsibilities follows:
• Analyzing production software procedures and problems
• Evaluating the effectiveness of existing software solutions
• Making recommendations to improve: production software output, efficiency, and workflow
• Software analysis and design
• Code testing / integration
• High-level support of developed code

The SE partners with the technology department's management, department staff, and production personnel to determine software engineering needs. Additionally, the SE reviews existing software system capabilities to decide what changes can be made within existing systems and when new systems must be added to provide solutions - whichever meets productions need in the timeliest manner and fits within the specific budget.

The SE is responsive to our environment's critical production timelines and is able to analyze bugs/ system glitches, track them to the corrupted code, implement timely repairs, and make recommendations for avoiding similar situations via code/software/system changes and code management procedures.

Basic Qualifications:
• 2 years+ working in a Digital production software development environment or equivalent experience.
• Must be able to work independently with technical and non-technical staff to determine system needs.
• Strong documentation techniques and possess creativity in developing easy-to-use tools and ''quick fixes''
• Able to communicate technical information effectively – both written and verbally.
• Able to strategically solve complex technical issues
• Able to learn and work in a fast paced, production critical environment
• Must be familiar with Television or Film production or any other fast-paced environment
• Proficiency in:
• C/C++, Python
• Git
• MySQL and/or PostgreSQL
• Image processing, compositing development and relevant algorithms

Preferred Qualifications:
• Proficiency in one or more of the following technologies:
• multi-processing development.
• OpenImageIO, OpenColorIO
• Nuke development
• Davinci Resolve API
• Avid Media Composer
• Thinkbox Deadline
• Open GL development
• GPU, CUDA, OpenCL development
• ToonBoom development
• Docker

Required Education:
• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline

The hiring range for this remote position is $107,256 to $165,440 per year, which factors in various geographic regions. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

The Team:

Quoting Walt Disney: First, Think. Second, Dream. Third, Believe and Finally, Dare. Be part of the legacy: Disney Television Animation is a creative community of visual storytellers who celebrate and embrace the magic of Disney. Our content delivers: Authentic points of view through inclusive storytelling, Fantastical wish fulfillment, Relatable and surprising characters and worlds. Comedy with heart and Stories that matter. Our Award-winning content is created with world class talent and technologists and is viewed globally on The Walt Disney Company's streaming service, Disney + and on: Disney Channel, Disney XD and Disney Junior.

This position is with Walt Disney Pictures, which is part of a business we call Disney General Entertainment Content.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g3m714-18-217-150-11-42 in your application.