Title: Creative Systems Developer
Location: Culver City, CA or Cupertino, CA (Hybrid)
Duration: 12+ months
Pay Range: $58/hr to $62/hr
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Job Summary Product, Design & Marketing (PD&M):
Creative Infrastructure is seeking a Creative Systems Developer to design, build, and maintain the internal tools, APIs, and infrastructure that power our creative production environment - locally and across our global footprint of designers.
Our organization is responsible for all the beautiful source content designed and seen across all platforms - Apps, Games, Music, Movies, TV Shows, and the next big thing - whether showcasing content built in-house or featured from external providers.
This position places you at the intersection of software development and creative infrastructure, building the services and automation that keep our designers productive and our systems reliable.
You will work alongside experienced engineers across systems, networking, security, and desktop teams who manage infrastructure for other departments.
You will be encouraged to learn from, mirror, and build upon their experience while bringing your own expertise to innovate and build solu4ons tailored to our creative environment.
Key Qualifications
• 3+ years of experience in systems engineering, DevOps, or backend development - ideally with exposure to media, design, or creative production environments.
• Experience with high-performance network-attached storage (Qumulo or similar platforms such as Isilon, NetApp) and data backup strategies.
• Experience in utilizing AI to develop automation and tooling, integrating models and agentic workflows into internal services, and applying AI-assisted development to engineering tasks.
• Strong proficiency in Python for building APIs, automation, and tooling.
• Hands-on experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and cloud infrastructure (S3, EC2, or similar).
• Proficiency with shell scripting and Linux server administration in production environments.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP) and troubleshooting system performance.
• Experience with Git version control, CI/CD workflows, and configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, JAMF, etc.), as well as terraform.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to debug across application, system, and network layers.
Preferred Qualifications
• Understanding of creative production workflows, pipelines (VFX, mo4on graphics), and tools (Adobe Creative Cloud, Sketch, Frame.io).
• Familiarity with VMware vSphere environments and database systems (SQL/Postgres).
• Experience with system monitoring and observability platforms.
• Strong design sensibility with an appreciation for layout and visual consistency when building internal tools and interfaces.
• Awareness of accessibility best practices when building internal tools and interfaces.
Description
You will have the opportunity to work with teams that lead in the design and creation of globally recognized content. The role will be focused on enabling the teams’ individual objectives by maintaining, servicing, and addressing the day-to-day and future technical needs of the organization.
• Spearhead the research and implementation of new technologies to improve team efficiency and capabilities.
• Build and maintain automation tooling in Python and shell scripting to streamline infrastructure operations and creative workflows.
• Deploy, manage, and scale services on Kubernetes clusters.
• Integrate infrastructure components with internal and external tools and systems.
• Drive systems engineering projects to completion by working closely with technical business partners.
• Participate in architectural planning discussions to ensure a consistent technology roadmap.
• Communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical partners, translating creative team needs into engineering solu4ons.
• Maintain and monitor Qumulo storage systems and integrate them with internal tools and APIs.
• Ensure redundancy and backups of data, core systems, and services.
• Write and maintain documentation for APIs, tools, and operational procedures.
• Maintain software license servers and assist with end-user software installs and configuration.
Education and Experience
• BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field - or equivalent practical experience.
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