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Founded in 1975 by George Lucas, ILM is the leading effects facility in the world, serving the motion picture, commercial production, and attraction industries.

Core Pipeline is a globally distributed team that develops tools and workflows that act as the foundational infrastructure for ILM's creative departments at all of our locations around the world. We work closely with CG Production to create innovative tooling for media management, publishing and asset management, developer platforms, and other core services. We work with all levels of artists and supervisors to create efficient, resilient, and artist-friendly software.

Within Core Pipeline, the Platform team provides the services, tools and applications that underpin the VFX pipeline. The Staff Production Engineer for Platform is engaged in architecting, developing, and maintaining the environment for the application developers to operate in. They will be a strong individual contributor and teammate, with an eye towards security, scalability, and reliability.

As a Staff Production Engineer, you may be required to:
• Work closely with development teams to ensure applications are designed for scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Design, deploy, and maintain distributed, multi-region, highly scalable, and reliable services to improve developer productivity and experience.
• Build and maintain effective monitoring, logging, and alerting systems.
• Implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices.
• Continuously improve our application infrastructure and processes.
• Drive discussions around the future of the developer platform at ILM.
• Provide support in the event of critical service downtime.

Required skills:
• Expert knowledge of Python and the Linux environment.
• Experience working with network and application protocols like NFS, TCP, gRPC, HTTP, etc.
• Experience with several relational or NoSQL technologies such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, ElasticSearch.
• Experience building and managing Kubernetes clusters in production.
• Experience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform, Ansible.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as ELK stack, Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog.
• Knowledge of or expertise with SRE practices.
• Experience designing and implementing distributed systems in multi-region and hybrid environments.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Bachelor's degree, M.Sc, or Ph.D in Computing Science, or equivalent professional experience.

Additional qualifications (a plus):
• Experience developing with C, C++, Rust
• Experience with message queuing systems such as RabbitMQ or Kafka
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
• VFX, Feature Animation or Episodic production experience
• Experience developing on Windows

We're looking for someone who:
1. Has a passion for technology, systems design, and solving puzzles
2. Can drive projects through to completion, juggle competing priorities, and think on their feet
3. Delights in creating ingenious solutions, brainstorming with a global team, and bringing fresh ideas to the table
4. Is an empathetic listener, a concise technical communicator, and loves keeping stakeholders up to date

If you are a Staff Platform Engineer with a strong background in data-intensive systems and are looking for an exciting opportunity to make movie magic, we encourage you to apply.

Staff Production Engineer - Platform at Industrial Light & Magic in Sydney, Australia. Develop and maintain foundational infrastructure for ILM's creative departments worldwide.

Staff Production Engineer - Platform

Industrial Light & Magic, founded in 1975 by George Lucas, has created some of the most iconic moments in motion picture history. From Star Wars to Jurassic Park, Pirates of the Caribbean, Transformers, The Avengers, theme park rides and interactive experiences, ILM continues to expand the possibilities of what visual entertainment can be.

Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is seeking talented R&D engineers at all levels to join their innovative and collaborative R&D team. ILM's Research and Development (R&D) group develops ground-breaking technology that empowers artists to create dazzling visuals. The role involves developing tools and production techniques across all areas of visual effects and feature animation production, working with engineers across all ILM's studios, and collaborating with commercial software vendors.

Responsibilities include:
- Developing innovative algorithms, crafting artist-friendly user interfaces, optimizing data management processes, and building special purpose content creation tools.
- Working on long-term software development projects and providing day-to-day artist support, consultation, and problem-solving.
- Occasional shot work alongside artists in areas such as image processing, compositing, rotoscoping, simulating natural phenomena, lighting, texturing, and more.
- Senior level roles will have people and/or project leadership responsibilities.

Required skills and experience:
- Proficiency in C++ and Python on Linux
- Knowledge of visual effects principles
- Experience with Maya, Houdini, Katana, Mari or other commercial software applications
- Working knowledge of standard data formats: OpenEXR, OpenVDB, Alembic, USD, etc.
- Understanding of software development principles
- BS and/or advanced degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent level of experience

The role is Hybrid, requiring a minimum of 2 days on-site per week at a Company designated location.

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