Senior Pipeline Engineer
Senior Pipeline Engineer
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02-08-2025
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Skydance offers a dynamic inclusive and ever-evolving culture where innovative ideas are welcomed and growth fostered. The partnership between unique creativity and technological advancements are demonstrated within each pillar of the company. At the heart of it all is a commitment to boldly entertaining and relevant storytelling.
While all Animation studios look to hire people who are creative and hard-working Skydance Animation is specifically looking for pioneers who seek to push the limits of what the worlds most collaborative art form can achieve and to give those pioneers the space and the resources to build a new studio thats doing something different.
For information on Skydances privacy practices see theSkydance EU/UK PersonnelPrivacy Notice located at a Senior Pipeline Engineer you will define develop test analyze and maintain software applications and libraries for the global feature animation pipeline by employing industry best practices. You will also research design document and modify software specifications throughout the production life cycle. This role requires strong expertise in database design and application development as youll be architecting data solutions that power our production workflows and asset management systems. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in database schema optimization and building robust scalable database-driven applications that integrate seamlessly with complex pipeline infrastructure. As a senior engineer you will provide guidance and help to the other engineers
Responsibilities
- Designs develops tests deploys and documents the proprietary software used in concurrent film productions.
- Analyzes and assesses existing workflows and procedures related to the company Pipeline.
- Liaises with IT infrastructure IT Client Services Wrangling Production and Show TD teams to resolve problems with hardware software products or company software systems.
- Database:
- Designs and optimizes database schemas to support production data workflows and asset management systems.
- Develops and maintains database-driven applications that integrate seamlessly with the animation pipeline infrastructure.
- Implements data migration strategies and maintains database performance across multiple concurrent productions
- Keeps up with current methodologies technology trends and tools that best suit the production and the company.
- Trains end users to operate new or modified programs.
- Proactively looks for risks and problems in the current system and proposes improvements.
- Presents new ideas to the team using diagrams charts and presentations that are easy for them to understand.
- Actively participates and contributes to brainstorming sessions.
- Has a growth and forward-thinking mindset.
- Proactively reaches out to stakeholders and informs them about the progress of tasks setting expectations promptly.
- Works together with the team providing them with support guidance and instruction in areas that contribute towards their artistic and professional growth.
- Follows the Supervisors and Leads guidance.
- Follows the teams technical guidelines.
Requirements
- 5 years in VFX or animation industries or other relevant industry.
- A high level of proficiency in written and spoken English is desirable.
- Proficiency in Spanish is a bonus.
- Databases (RDBMS and/or Non-Relational DB) like PostgreSQL MongoDB
- Extensive experience in database schema design and optimization for production environments
- Proficiency in database application development using ORM frameworks and direct SQL queries
- Experience with database migration tools and version control for schema changes
- Knowledge of database performance tuning indexing strategies and query optimization
- Familiarity with database backup recovery and high-availability configurations
- Experience with GraphQL schema design and implementation for flexible data querying and API development.
- Solid engineering skills with an appreciation of code craft quality and technical debt management.
- Ability to work with a team to deliver high-quality software in a fast-paced dynamic and deadline-oriented environment.
- Strong knowledge of writing efficient efficient and performant code in Python3
- Familiarity with task management systems/frameworks like Agile Sprint Jira Scrums Daily Standups etc.
- Knowledge of working with (and developing with/for) technologies (familiarity with as many as possible here):
- Familiarity working with REZ (package management system)
- Autodesk Shotgrid/Flow
- Render engines like Renderman Arnold
- Linux development environment essentials such as bash scripting and general Linux native commands (find grep sed etc.)
- NFS and other distributed file systems
- Experience working with a source version control system (Git preferred).
- Deployment Systems like Kubernetes Docker Podman
- In Memory caching systems like Redis Memcached
- Queuing Systems and message brokers like RabbitMQ
- Web service patterns like REST API GraphQL RPC
- Knowledge of developing CI/CD pipelines (Gitlab or Github)
- Pytest Framework or other testing frameworks for Python
- CMAKE Make or other build system knowledge is a bonus
- Knowledge of Production front end systems and libraries (good to know but not required):
- Production pipelines using USD and its integration into Houdini(Solaris) Maya Nuke and other digital content creation applications and their APIs
- PyQt PySide
- ASWF libraries including OpenColorIO OpenVDB and OpenTimelineIO.
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Skydance is a diversified media company founded by David Ellison in 2010 to create high quality event-level entertainment for global audiences. The Company brings to life stories of immersive worlds across its feature film television interactive and animation divisions.
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