Staff Production Engineer (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Staff Production Engineer (Gamedev): Building workflow-driven applications for creating movies, TV shows, magazines, books, and games with an accent on expanding video-related featureset. Focus on making petabytes of time-based media more accessible, reusable, and useful for users.

Location: Must work onsite in our San Francisco office and occasionally from home in the Bay Area

Salary: $170,500 to $228,600 per year

Company

hirify.global is the leading effects facility in the world, serving the motion picture, commercial production, and attraction industries.

What you will do

• Build workflow-driven applications for creating movies, TV shows, magazines, books, and games.
• Expand video-related featureset to make petabytes of time-based media more accessible, reusable, and useful.
• Become the team’s expert on new users’ video workflows.
• Work closely with the broader team on how best to support users in our toolset.

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 have

• 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.

Culture & Benefits

• Value pride and earnestness, idealism and pragmatism, and focusing on the customer as much as the code.
• Have a "no arrogance" policy and want to hire awesome people to work in a great department.
• Value Scout Rule coding ("leave the code cleaner than you found it") and finding the right tool for the right job.
• Continuously refine processes, and encourage developers to explore tools, techniques, and other sorts of meta-development to make themselves more productive.
• Part of a group that gets along well, whether it's tackling a technical issue, attending a company screening, or joining a zoom hangout on a Friday afternoon.