This is an Engineering Manager position for the person who automated their own job once and immediately wanted to do it again. Join Universal Studios as a contract Engineering Manager and take real ownership of PHP work while earning $92,000 - $144,000 and growing your craft.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the manager Stakeholder Management workstream that unblocks the rest of Universal Studios's Yuma, AZ roadmap
- Carry features from whiteboard sketch to Yuma, AZ production without dropping the baton
- Cut gRPC cold-start times so Universal Studios functions wake before AZ users notice
- Scale data pipelines processing millions of events with Attention Management
- Trace a technology number back through Scrum services until it finally adds up
- Configure and manage infrastructure as code across staging and production
- Own the Stakeholder Management release that Yuma leadership has circled on the calendar
- Ship incremental improvements to Universal Studios's Yuma platform on a regular cadence
What You'll Bring
- Resilience measured across 8 years of technology cycles
- Clarity of thought that shows up in tidy documentation
- A steady hand when three priorities all claim to be number one
- Reliable, accountable, and committed to following through
- Working understanding of both PHP and Kafka in real-world settings
- Pattern recognition earned across many technology engagements
At its core, Universal Studios is an employee-centric bet that Yuma, AZ can out-build anyone when it comes to gRPC. At Universal Studios we hire people we can trust with real decisions and then give them the room to make them.
What sits behind the $92,000 - $144,000 offer is an Universal Studios culture built on real mentorship, generous benefits, and schedules that bend toward family.
Active as of this moment, the Yuma, AZ role accepts resumes daily.
Join our Yuma team by applying for this Engineering Manager position today.