Senior Software Engineer-Build Engineer
Burbank, CA

Job Description

Job Description

At Walt Disney Animation Studios we have a deep commitment to the philosophy that creativity inspires technology, and technology inspires creativity. Engineers are charged with developing and implementing processes for solving unique and challenging problems for all of our movies.

We have an exciting multi-year vision targeting a radically different approach to our production process for creating world-leading visual content.

What we are doing:

* Re-imaging a cloud native pipeline
* Embracing USD as our native unifying data format
* Building a next-generation of immersive artist tools on top of an in house application framework
* Moving our rendering to a unified renderer for both final frame and interactive visualization

Embarking on these new technical strategies requires us to invest in our build, release, and configuration management strategy and support. This will allow us to remain agile, flexible and effective in our platform and development process. We are looking for a talented engineer to join our Production Technology team. In this role, you will partner with software development, systems infrastructure, project management, and leadership across technology and production within the studio to ensure the execution, support and delivery of our new long term vision for the Studio.

Are you passionate about enabling a hands-on experience for multiple teams to experience Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment systems? Does the idea of enabling a future facing platform helping stay on top of industry trends and state of the art technology excite you? Are you inspired by partnering with engineers and artists to enable a Test Driven Infrastructure in a complex environment iterating cross disciplines all to enable bringing high quality content production to screens all over the world?

Apply today to join our team and help build our future!

Job Type

Full Time

Segment

Studio Entertainment

Category

Technology

Basic Qualifications

* Ability to analyze and assess complex code and library dependencies and recommend configuration solutions across in house legacy and emerging code repositories
* Experience with one or more of the following build systems: Make, CMake, SCons, GNU Autotools
* Experience with Linux C/C++ compilers and linkers such as g++, gcc, icc, Clang, ldd, LLVM
* Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployments systems such as Jenkins or GitLab CI/CD a plus
* Experience with Git version-control system
* Ability to research, test, recommend and integrate technology related to the provisioning of software and services
* Ability to troubleshoot and improve implementations of open source and in-house frameworks
* Experience with scripting languages including Python
* Experience with Linux containerization such as Docker
* 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

Business

Walt Disney Animation Studios

Required Education

* BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or other related field

Preferred Qualifications

* Familiarity with VFX Reference Platform

Postal Code

91506

Preferred Education

* Masters in Computer Science

Job Description

At Walt Disney Animation Studios we have a deep commitment to the philosophy that creativity inspires technology, and technology inspires creativity. Engineers are charged with developing and implementing processes for solving unique and challenging problems for all of our movies.

We have an exciting multi-year vision targeting a radically different approach to our production process for creating world-leading visual content.

What we are doing:

* Re-imaging a cloud native pipeline
* Embracing USD as our native unifying data format
* Building a next-generation of immersive artist tools on top of an in house application framework
* Moving our rendering to a unified renderer for both final frame and interactive visualization

Embarking on these new technical strategies requires us to invest in our build, release, and configuration management strategy and support. This will allow us to remain agile, flexible and effective in our platform and development process. We are looking for a talented engineer to join our Production Technology team. In this role, you will partner with software development, systems infrastructure, project management, and leadership across technology and production within the studio to ensure the execution, support and delivery of our new long term vision for the Studio.

Are you passionate about enabling a hands-on experience for multiple teams to experience Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment systems? Does the idea of enabling a future facing platform helping stay on top of industry trends and state of the art technology excite you? Are you inspired by partnering with engineers and artists to enable a Test Driven Infrastructure in a complex environment iterating cross disciplines all to enable bringing high quality content production to screens all over the world?

Apply today to join our team and help build our future!

Basic Qualifications

* Ability to analyze and assess complex code and library dependencies and recommend configuration solutions across in house legacy and emerging code repositories
* Experience with one or more of the following build systems: Make, CMake, SCons, GNU Autotools
* Experience with Linux C/C++ compilers and linkers such as g++, gcc, icc, Clang, ldd, LLVM
* Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployments systems such as Jenkins or GitLab CI/CD a plus
* Experience with Git version-control system
* Ability to research, test, recommend and integrate technology related to the provisioning of software and services
* Ability to troubleshoot and improve implementations of open source and in-house frameworks
* Experience with scripting languages including Python
* Experience with Linux containerization such as Docker
* 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

Required Education

* BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or other related field

Preferred Qualifications

* Familiarity with VFX Reference Platform

Preferred Education

* Masters in Computer Science