LAIKA is looking to solve the problem of efficiently moving data across creative and technical pipelines by developing back-end services, improving database performance, and creating tools that connect artists and engineers through reliable, scalable technology.
Requirements
- Proficiency in Python, Rust, C, or C++.
- Experience with SDLC concepts and methodologies including CI/CD and version control.
- Experience developing and operating services on container platforms such as Docker/Kubernetes preferred.
- Experience developing for Linux, Mac, and Windows operating systems preferred.
- Experience deploying, managing, and optimizing PostgreSQL in an enterprise environment.
- Solid understanding of database design, implementation, and troubleshooting.
- Experience developing applications backed by databases at scale.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and operate database platform services that support studio-wide applications and infrastructure.
- Partner with developers and pipeline teams to model, design, and implement scalable, maintainable data systems.
- Build tools and APIs that empower users across production and technology to work more efficiently.
- Maintain and improve existing systems to ensure reliability, interoperability, and ease of use.
- Automate recurring tasks using modern DevOps and scripting practices to improve performance and maintainability.
- Investigate and resolve complex technical challenges and problems in a high-demand production environment.
- Contribute to our event-driven architecture and data wrangling systems (ETL/ELT pipelines).
Other
- 7+ years of applied software development or engineering experience in a professional setting.
- Curiosity, collaboration, and a passion for supporting the art of storytelling through elegant engineering.
- The employee is required to walk; stand; sit; use hands to operate standard office equipment; reach with hands and arms; balance; stoop; talk or hear both in person and by telephone.
- The employee must lift and/or move up to 15 pounds.
- On-site in Hillsboro, OR, and eligible for hybrid and/or remote work (in CA, OR, or WA only).
