As a Software Engineer, you will build and maintain resilient backend services, develop APIs, and establish deployment pipelines while mentoring team members.
Eyeline is a global team of risk takers, innovators and perfectionists who achieve creative visions and have fun doing it. A dynamic workforce nestled within the industry’s most intriguing cities, united by a drive to push the boundaries of storytelling. Learn more.
As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for building and operating resilient backend services in our environment. You will apply your deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices architectures, and modern deployment practices to establish technical standards and empower other developers.
The ideal candidate brings together strong software engineering capabilities with production operations experience - equally adept at implementing RESTful APIs in Python, contributing to a frontend codebase, establishing reliable deployment pipelines, and applying SRE principles to maintain service reliability.
You will help shape our technical direction while ensuring our services remain scalable, observable, and maintainable.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect, design, build and deploy complex services and APIs (mostly in Python) to be used by other parts of the VFX pipeline and development team
- Gather requirements across large collaboration efforts that span multiple departments and/or disciplines
- Write technical briefs and user documentation
- Partner with software development leadership and pipeline team to identify and schedule tasks
- Implement and maintain observability solutions including metrics, traces, and logging systems
- Design and enforce SLIs/SLOs for critical services
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines in air-gapped environments
- Create and document release processes and procedures
- Mentor team members on service deployment and operational best practices
Qualifications
- Expert in Python development
- Experience designing and developing services and APIs in a scalable and maintainable way
- Familiarity with automated build and deployment systems in Gitlab or similar
- Hands on experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration systems
- Knowledge of SQL/noSQL databases and ability to author schemas
- Demonstrated ability to work on unfamiliar technologies
- Experience implementing observability solutions using tools like OpenTelemetry and Prometheus
- Understanding of SRE principles and practices
- Familiarity with VFX Pipelines and production needs
- Experience with event queuing and consumption services such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with workflow orchestration frameworks (e.g., Apache Airflow, Dagster)
- Familiarity with a web frontend framework like React, vue.js or similar
- Demonstrated ability to work in restricted/air-gapped environments
About Us
Eyeline is a global creative studio partnering with storytellers to turn their ambitions into stunning reality. By blending the time-honored craft of filmmaking with breakthrough technologies, we unlock bold, cinematic visions at scale. Our three pillars - VFX, Studios and Labs - form the creative spine of Eyeline, guiding how we think, work, and show up in every frame.
At Eyeline, we believe technology serves artistry and our people are the soul behind everything we do, deepening creative connection, rather than replacing it. We build worlds with exceptional craft and precision, working hand in hand with our creative partners from concept to final pixel.
Netflix Investment- Eyeline
With the support of Netflix’s investment in our pipeline, infrastructure, and workforce, we’re pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in visual effects and virtual production technology. In addition to our work with Netflix, we continue to partner with a wide range of long-standing and new clients worldwide.
Come as you are
We are looking for those seeking to take risks with us, those driven by passion for their craft. To us, these are key ingredients that we look for in our team. We are committed to ensuring fair and equal treatment of your application. When you apply for a role with us, you will receive consideration based solely on your qualifications.
Top Skills
Apache Airflow
Gitlab
Kafka
Kubernetes
NoSQL
Opentelemetry
Prometheus
Python
RabbitMQ
React
SQL
Vue
Eyeline Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN Office
580 Granville St, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6C 1W8
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