Junior Civil Engineer: Build scalable APIs & PHP tooling

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

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.