Software Engineer, Web Services

Job Description

As a Software 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, contributing to a frontend codebase, 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 (mostly in Python) 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)
• Familiarity with a web frontend framework like React, vue.js or similar
• Demonstrated ability to work in restricted/air-gapped environments
$120,000 - $180,000 a year
This salary range is specific to applicants applying to our position in Vancouver, BC. To determine your base salary, we consider your qualifications, skills, and experience. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary outside of this range and will also be dependent on your location.
About Us

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-36954n-216-73-216-111-42 in your application.