Civil Engineer

Sony Pictures; Ames (IA); Remote; USD 58,000 - 87,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote options

Mentor program

Job summary

Sony Pictures in Ames, IA is hiring a junior Civil Engineer to scale our infrastructure for thousands to millions of concurrent users. This full-time role offers flexibility, mentorship, and remote options as part of a collaborative team.

You will develop and maintain RESTful APIs powering core Sony Pictures products, keep PHP schemas compatible, profile Laravel memory use, and own end-to-end technology service delivery from design to on-call rotation.

Qualifications

• 1 year of learning when to trust the process and when to break it.
• Proven leadership experience guiding junior-level initiatives.
• A knack for PHP that colleagues quietly come to rely on.
• Comfort being the newest person in the room and the loudest in the notes.
• A track record of fiercely-supportive delivery in a full-time structure.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs powering core Sony Pictures products
• Keep PHP schemas backward-compatible so Sony Pictures never forces a breaking upgrade
• Profile Laravel memory use and chase down the leaks crashing Ames nodes
• Own a technology service end to end, from Innovation schema to on-call rotation
• Prototype proof-of-concept solutions for emerging technology requirements

Skills

PHP

Laravel

REST APIs

Leadership

Ames

Job description

The Civil Engineer we hire will help scale our infrastructure from thousands to millions of concurrent users. Everything about this junior Civil Engineer post says trust — $58,000 - $87,000, full-time flexibility, and 1 years rewarded with real say.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs powering core Sony Pictures products
• Keep PHP schemas backward-compatible so Sony Pictures never forces a breaking upgrade
• Profile Laravel memory use and chase down the leaks crashing Ames nodes
• Own a technology service end to end, from Innovation schema to on-call rotation
• Prototype proof-of-concept solutions for emerging technology requirements

What You'll Bring

• 1 years of learning when to trust the process and when to break it
• Proven leadership experience guiding junior-level initiatives
• A knack for PHP that colleagues quietly come to rely on
• Comfort being the newest person in the room and the loudest in the notes
• A track record of fiercely-supportive delivery in a full-time structure
• Comfort steering technology conversations toward a decision
• An Ames grounding, or the adaptability to plant roots quickly

Sony Pictures is the kind of impact-driven Ames company that technology engineers leave their old jobs to join. At Sony Pictures you can challenge your skip-level's plan and still get a thank-you for it.

Take $58,000 - $87,000, add a mentor invested in your rise, layer on benefits and remote options, and that is the Sony Pictures offer in one breath.

Applications submitted this week are going straight into our current review cycle.

Bring 1 of grit or a fresh perspective; either way, this Civil Engineer role wants you.