Principal Software Engineer - Studio in the Cloud

Location of role: (No exceptions)

• Nashville, TN
  
• Austin, TX
  
• Broomfield, CO
  

You will work with a talented group of software developers, designing scalable, highly available cloud services in a world class cloud development environment. For this senior engineering role we are seeking an individual with substantial experience in design authorship, building and leading development, delivery and operation of cloud services at the technical level. Prior experience and deep domain knowledge in media production pipeline infrastructure services used in film, animation and game development studios is highly desired. Principal Engineer is an individual contributor role that requires a proven track record of success and technical depth and maturity as a software developer. We seek individuals with evolved soft skills in addition to technical acumen. Excellent communication and the ability to lead and collaborate with others are hallmarks. You will mentor other engineers and must be capable of driving complex technical projects and assignments independently and with confidence. You will have continuous opportunities for technical innovation.

Responsibilities

• Cloud service design for availability, scalability, observability and testability.
  
• Implementation, validation and documentation of services and their component microservices.
  
• Collaboration within the engineering team to deliver and operate cloud services that enable animation, film and game development studios to run their production workflows in the cloud.
  
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry best practices, ensuring compliance and driving innovation within the organization.
  
• Launching new cloud services and establishing operational excellence.
  
• Lead implementation to realize and achieve the technical vision of the team.
  
• Ability to engage with geographically distributed engineering teams.
  
• Coaching and mentoring other members of the engineering staff.
  
• Establishing and ensuring compliance to software development standards, processes and best practices.
  

Qualifications

• BS/CS Computer Science or related field and 8+ years software development experience.
  
• Large/enterprise scale software development and engineering experience, particularly with cloud services and distributed systems.
  
• Domain knowledge and experience with work flows and pipelines for media production: digital asset management and namespaces, familiarity with 3d frameworks, universal scene description, scene graphs, layers and models, 3d data packaging, rendering work flows, image composition, tools used in the workflow by artists, engineers, editors and content creators is highly desired.
  
• Experience as a lead developer in the design, implementation and operation of cloud services.
  
• Experience collaborating with geo-distributed teams.
  
• Extensive background and experience in software implementation, code and design review, failure root cause analysis.
  
• Designing for availability, observability, scalability, testability, recoverability.