The Walt Disney Company · 2 days ago
Sr Systems Reliability Engineer
Burbank, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$142K/yr - $190K/yr
5+ years expThe Walt Disney Company is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. They are seeking a Senior Systems Reliability Engineer to innovate and deliver solutions that support their film production systems, focusing on automation and infrastructure-as-code.
Amusement Park and ArcadeAnimationConsumer GoodsDigital MediaE-CommerceMedia and EntertainmentMulti-level MarketingPerforming ArtsResorts
Responsibilities
Build and operate high-quality production systems
Design systems to enable rapid development, high availability, and clear observability
Maintain and improve the reliability of services and infrastructure
Troubleshoot and resolve performance and reliability issues across the stack, including cloud resources
Collaborate with engineers to ensure services are designed to be cloud-native, scalable, and easily operated
Create self-healing infrastructure-as-Code and automate everything
Ensuring security best practice is at the forefront of all your technical solutions
Qualification
Required
Minimum of 5+ years of related work experience
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Comfortable working with public cloud service providers (e.g. AWS, Google, Azure)
Strong knowledge in system management languages (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)
Operating systems and systems management (e.g. Amazon Linux, Windows)
Multiple scripting languages in your toolbox (e.g. Python, GO, Ruby, or Swift)
Authentication tool-sets such as Active Directory, LDAP, Ping Identity
Experience working with observability tools for optimal performance and 24/7 reliability (e.g. DataDog, New Relic, Grafana)
Data center, network, and application architectures
Systems Security (e.g. key management, encryption, vulnerability management)
Containerization and Container PaaS offerings (e.g. Docker, Rancher, Kubernetes)
Thorough knowledge of continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD)
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
Preferred
Familiarity with agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Github Copilot
Experience working in media production environments
Passionate to explore new technologies and constantly learn
Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills
Virtual hosting technologies (e.g. VMWare, KVM)
Smart, self-driven with a keen focus on exceptional delivery of innovative solutions
Benefits
A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company started as a cartoon studio and evolves into sports coverage and television shows.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$11BKey Investors
Citibank
2020-04-13Post Ipo Debt· $5B
2020-03-20Post Ipo Debt· $6B
1978-01-06IPO
Leadership Team
Jamie Power
SVP, Addressable Sales
Nick Lewerke
SVP/Head of Content Planning & Analysis, Disney Streaming
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