Manager, Developer Experience & AI Enablement

Scanline VFX ULC; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 205,000 - 305,000; Full time

Job summary

Eyeline is seeking a Manager of Agentic Developer Experience to lead our Developer Experience and Agent Experience initiatives. You will shape how engineers interact with daily work tools, pipelines, and agent capabilities within Eyeline’s ecosystem.

You will own release engineering strategy, design robust CI/CD pipelines, mentor engineers, and partner with Platform Engineering and VFX teams to enable scalable, secure production workflows for agent-powered automation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience developing with Python.
• 4+ years experience leading a team of developers.
• Demonstrated ability to automate software build and release pipelines using GitLab, Github or similar.
• Experience enforcing code quality through testing and linting in the Python ecosystem.
• Deep expertise distributing Python packages using tools such as pip and uv.

Responsibilities

• Act as a force multiplier for a team of software engineers and citizen developers, through consistent, reliable, and user-friendly tools.
• Mentor a small team of high performing software engineers, conducting regular code reviews, fostering skills development, and cultivating a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement
• Architect, own, and govern the end-to-end CI/CD infrastructure, ensuring a frictionless developer experience across all production environments
• Partner with Platform Engineering to define our framework for hosting agents in production at scale, and ensure our services are designed with Agent Experience (AX) as a first principle
• Collaborate with user-facing VFX and Stage Engineering teams to enable new production use cases for agent-powered automation
• Set the technical strategy for release engineering and agentic development, driving continuous improvement in developer experience and velocity through the complementary use of both deterministic and agentic automation
• Create awareness of new capabilities and policies in our agent ecosystem by writing documentation and release notes, giving presentations, and organizing training
• Work with our infrastructure partners to maintain our standard production images for Windows and Linux
• Inform and support our agent security standards, ensuring our data is protected and our incident recovery time is minimized
• Meet with developer stakeholders to gather requirements and interpret them into robust and reusable solutions that work across our engineering organization
• Foster a team that provides fast and effective support to your engineering stakeholders, utilizing a combination of AI-based automation, and a deep bench of highly experienced and responsive engineers.

Skills

Python

Team leadership

CI/CD

Documentation

Communication

Tools

GitLab

GitHub

Docker

Pip

uv

Job description

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.

This role is part of Eyeline’s Technology organization, which is responsible for supporting creative excellence across our global studio. We are seeking an accomplished and highly motivated leader for our new Agentic Developer Experience group – someone with a proven track record of leading teams who build and support software development tools and release pipelines using both traditional and AI-powered approaches.

As Manager of Agentic Developer Experience you own Eyeline’s Developer Experience – how software engineers feel about and interact with their daily work tools, processes, and environment – as well as our Agent Experience – how easily and safely autonomous AI agents can access, understand, and operate within our ecosystem. These two areas are rapidly converging and we want a leader who will help us define, champion, and navigate the development processes of the future.

You will drive the technical strategy and day-to-day delivery for release engineering – leaning on your deep expertise in leading teams to design and deploy robust and frictionless software deployment pipelines. And you’ll leverage that same drive for developer enablement to ensure our agents are consistently configured, observable, and safely sandboxed.

By collaborating with our stakeholders in production, you’ll harness the potential of Eyeline’s “citizen developers” – our community of technically inclined production users – by expanding our principles of Developer Experience to a non-engineer audience, ensuring the coding agents they employ adhere to our standards and operate within our guardrails.

Success in this role means being a trusted strategic partner to both creative and technical leadership, delivering pipeline technology that connects teams, accelerates workflows, and drives Eyeline’s unified vision forward.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a force multiplier for a team of software engineers and citizen developers, through consistent, reliable, and user-friendly tools
• Mentor a small team of high performing software engineers, conducting regular code reviews, fostering skills development, and cultivating a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement
• Architect, own, and govern the end-to-end CI/CD infrastructure, ensuring a frictionless developer experience across all production environments
• Partner with Platform Engineering to define our framework for hosting agents in production at scale, and ensure our services are designed with Agent Experience (AX) as a first principle
• Collaborate with user-facing VFX and Stage Engineering teams to enable new production use cases for agent-powered automation
• Set the technical strategy for release engineering and agentic development, driving continuous improvement in developer experience and velocity through the complementary use of both deterministic and agentic automation
• Create awareness of new capabilities and policies in our agent ecosystem by writing documentation and release notes, giving presentations, and organizing training
• Work with our infrastructure partners to maintain our standard production images for Windows and Linux
• Inform and support our agent security standards, ensuring our data is protected and our incident recovery time is minimized
• Meet with developer stakeholders to gather requirements and interpret them into robust and reusable solutions that work across our engineering organization
• Foster a team that provides fast and effective support to your engineering stakeholders, utilizing a combination of AI-based automation, and a deep bench of highly experienced and responsive engineers.

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience developing with Python
• 4+ years experience leading a team of developers
• Demonstrated ability to automate software build and release pipelines using Gitlab, Github or similar
• Experience enforcing code quality through testing and linting in the Python ecosystem
• Deep expertise distributing Python packages using tools such as pip and uv
• Familiarity with Linux, including shell configuration, package managers
• Experience running tasks using Docker, and writing Dockerfiles
• Hands-on experience using coding agents, as well as integrating them into real workflows
• Understanding of the building blocks of agent administration – MCPs, skills, agents, prompts – and when to use each
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience with Rez build system
• Familiarity with VFX or animation production pipelines
• Experience building C++ libraries

$205,000 - $305,000 CAD a year This salary range is specific to applicants applying to our position in Vancouver, Canada. To determine your base salary, we consider your qualifications, skills, and experience. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary outside of this range and will also be dependent on your location.

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

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.

At Eyeline, we see a future that feels familiar. We blend the heart and time-honored craft of filmmaking with the new forms of technology to unlock bold, cinematic visions at scale. We value the convergence of human inspiration and new ways of creating.