Staff Production Engineer

The Walt Disney Company • San Francisco, CA

35d • Hybrid

About The Position

Lucasfilm is looking for an experienced full-stack Python developer to join a motivated and nimble 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. We’re currently onboarding several new user groups into our core digital asset management system. Several of these projects involve large video archives, and a key focus for our team in the coming year will be on expanding our video-related featureset. We hope to make petabytes of time-based media more accessible, reusable, and useful for our users, and you’d be supporting that effort, both directly and indirectly. Ideally, you’d become our team’s expert on these new users’ video workflows, and will work closely with the broader team on how best to support them in our toolset. Strong user-orientation is key to this role, complementing deep technical expertise. This role is considered Hybrid, which means the employee will work onsite in our San Francisco office and occasionally from home in the Bay Area.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong Python skillset, with demonstrated contributions to significant Python applications
• Experience with Python web and API frameworks
• Single page web app experience with modern JavaScript frameworks
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and client-facing skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, other technical degree, or equivalent

Nice To Haves

• Expertise in core technologies used by our team, including Vue, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Postgres, Redis, Solr, Celery, Aspera, Lambda, and Docker
• Expertise in time-based media: transcode, colorspace management, playback optimization, etc.
• Expertise in AWS MediaConvert
• Familiarity supporting film/tv/print media/game production processes and culture
• Experience with Digital Asset Management and Production Workflow tools
• Security orientation, and experience working with and protecting sensitive data
• Experience with async Python

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level