Performance Engineer

Energy Innovation Corp; Salem (OR); Remote; USD 79,000 - 121,000; Part time

Job summary

Disney in Salem, OR is seeking a part-time Performance Engineer to own Django work and advance your craft while earning $79,000 - $121,000. This role emphasizes hands-on development with Azure foundations and secure auth flows.

You will evaluate tools, lead design reviews, and mentor teammates in a low-drama, collaborative environment that rewards unblockers and practical results. Remote options are available.

Qualifications

• 5+ years navigating the politics that technology work attracts.
• Proven Django results, ideally seasoned in Salem, OR.
• Experience translating Django complexity for a non-technical audience.
• A collaborative mindset and genuine enthusiasm for teamwork.
• Ability to learn new technology systems quickly and apply them effectively.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and recommend new tools, frameworks, and React libraries.
• Own the full lifecycle of technology systems from prototype to production.
• Monitor system health and set up alerting for hands-dirty production environments.
• Lead technical design reviews for mid-level technology initiatives.
• Own the mid-level Prioritization workstream that unblocks the Salem OR roadmap.
• Watch Prioritization error budgets and pump the brakes before Salem OR burns through them.
• Own data integrity across Disney's Self-Motivation stores so Salem numbers never lie.
• Implement secure authentication and authorization flows using Rust.

Skills

Django

Stakeholder management

Tech storytelling

Team collaboration

Learning agility

Job description

Picture a Performance Engineer role where Microsoft Azure expertise is the floor, not the ceiling, and Disney in Salem, OR is building exactly that. Join Disney as a part-time Performance Engineer and take real ownership of Django work while earning $79,000 - $121,000 and growing your craft.

Key Responsibilities

• Evaluate and recommend new tools, frameworks, and React libraries
• Own the full lifecycle of technology systems from prototype to production
• Monitor system health and set up alerting for hands-dirty production environments
• Lead technical design reviews for mid-level technology initiatives
• Own the mid-level Prioritization workstream that unblocks the rest of Disney's Salem, OR roadmap
• Watch Prioritization error budgets and pump the brakes before Salem, OR burns through them
• Own data integrity across Disney's Self-Motivation stores so Salem numbers never lie
• Implement secure authentication and authorization flows using Rust

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years navigating the politics that technology work attracts
• Proven Django results, ideally seasoned in Salem, OR
• Experience translating Django complexity for a non-technical audience
• A collaborative mindset and genuine enthusiasm for teamwork
• Ability to learn new technology systems quickly and apply them effectively

You won't find Disney on every billboard, but inside technology circles across OR, this low-drama team is well known. We reward the teammate who unblocks three colleagues over the one who quietly hero-codes alone.

Take $79,000 - $121,000, add a mentor invested in your rise, layer on benefits and remote options, and that is the Disney offer in one breath.