Junior Pipeline Developer

The Junior Pipeline Developer in Production Technology will team with Engineers to design develop and deploy custom software tools that extend the use of our ShotGrid-based production tracking system. As a member of the Studio Pipeline team this position will work directly with artists In addition to working individually and with a sprint team this position will help establish technical direction and standard practices.

Responsibilities:

• Extend and integrate the use of Autodesk ShotGrid and other database systems to meet production needs including both desktop-native and browser-hosted applications and plugins.

• Work both independently and cooperatively with Engineers to extend existing tools develop new features and design new applications.

• Work with non-technical end users to help define requirements for new tools and pipeline processes to solve production problems.

• Develop test plans and roll out new ShotGrid based workflows and tools and work with end users to improve the usability of these tools.

• Follow the processes and procedures of the software development life cycle build and release system documentation and testing standards used in Production Technology.

• Participate in research and development to implement 3rd party solutions when available and/or help design and build prototypes for next generation systems.

• Support existing tools via bug fixes and version updates.

• Support applications through documentation training and handling questions.

• Support users on Windows and Linux.

• 2 years of experience developing custom tools and workflows with ShotGrid in an animation or VFX studio environment including SG Action menu Items and shotgun event daemon plugins.

• Strong experience with code development with Python.

• Experience with ShotGrids Python and REST APIs native UI and automation strategies.

• Experience developing on Linux or Mac platforms.

• Experience interacting directly with relational databases such as PostgreSQL preferred.

• A highly analytical mindset with the ability to troubleshoot complex shot setups and rendering issues.

• Familiarity building running managing and monitoring services on a Linux container platform such as Docker/Kubernetes a plus.

• Experience with ShotGrid Toolkit a plus.