Senior Site Reliability Engineer (AI/ML)

Location: Burbank, California, United States

Salary: $144,100–$193,200 per year, plus potential bonus, long-term incentives, and benefits.

Company

Walt Disney Animation Studios creates animated content through collaboration among filmmakers, artists, and technical teams.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and support reliable on-premises and cloud-native infrastructure using infrastructure as code and security automation.
• Deploy and operate AI-powered tools and ML infrastructure in production environments.
• Build observability, telemetry, alerting, SLIs/SLOs, performance optimization, and operational runbooks.
• Operate and evolve CI/CD, Git, cloud hosting, containerization, and web server technologies.
• Partner with studio stakeholders to translate workflows and business requirements into platform solutions.
• Develop internal tooling and reusable standards to diagnose and resolve platform, service, and application issues.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, technical operations, systems engineering, software engineering, or related disciplines.
• Expertise in distributed systems, networking, hardware architecture, capacity planning, and UNIX/Linux administration.
• Experience with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, containerization, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Experience implementing enterprise MLOps infrastructure for model validation, deployment, fallback, routing, load balancing, quota management, and inference metrics.
• Experience with CI tools, secrets management, data protection, and scalable AWS, GCP, or Azure solutions.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, Java, Scala, Go, Rust, or Ruby; a relevant degree or equivalent experience is expected.

Nice to have

• Film production experience and web server administration experience.
• Knowledge of LLM and MCP gateways, AI-agent runtime environments, GPU infrastructure, and model-serving frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with filmmakers, artists, and technical collaborators on animated content.
• Potential bonus and long-term incentive units may be included in the compensation package.
• Medical, financial, and other benefits may be provided depending on the level and position offered.
• Equal opportunity employment environment.