Aquent
Software Engineer [AQ-12059]
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About the Role
The client, a leader in creating immersive digital experiences, is at the forefront of delivering seamless user-generated content applications across multiple platforms. They are dedicated to pushing the boundaries of technology, from virtual reality to cloud-streamed content on mobile and PC, ensuring their platforms remain robust, scalable, and delightful for millions of users worldwide.
Imagine a role where your expertise directly ensures the smooth operation and health of a massive, cutting-edge user-generated content application, impacting countless users daily. As a pivotal member of the engineering team, you will be instrumental in designing and implementing automation solutions that keep this dynamic platform thriving across VR, mobile, and PC. This is your chance to dramatically reduce operational overhead, innovate with AI-assisted tooling, and directly contribute to the stability and performance of a truly groundbreaking product.
Responsibilities
As a Software Engineer, you will be instrumental in ensuring the robust health and smooth operation of a large user-generated content (UGC) application across multiple surfaces, including VR headsets, mobile, and PC via cloud streaming. Your key responsibilities will include:
- Build and maintain automation for the production health of a large application, encompassing release pipelines, build health, crash triage, and incident detection.
- Collaborate with runtime and operational teams to reduce manual operational and on-call work through strategic automation.
- Ensure the continuous health of cloud rendering and deployment pipelines.
- Maintain CI/CD functionality as upstream dependencies evolve and change.
- Maintain and improve an AI-assisted code repair system that autonomously creates and lands fix diffs.
- Develop tooling to automatically identify broken builds, pinpoint root-cause changes, and recommend or execute fixes.
- Monitor production quality metrics and respond swiftly to regressions and outages.
- Significantly reduce manual on-call burden through automation, aiming to cut recurring operational work by 80–90%.
- Complete essential infrastructure migrations to ensure CI/CD pipelines remain functional as upstream dependencies are retired.
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Required Skills & Experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent.
- Proven experience building and operating CI/CD, build, release, and cloud deployment pipelines at scale.
- Experience operating cloud services and server-side fleets in production, including reliability, capacity, and latency.
- Experience building or operating AI-assisted developer tooling or agents that generate or repair code.
- Experience building tooling that detects broken builds and traces failures to their root-cause change.
- Experience with production monitoring, crash triage, and incident response for a large-scale, multi-surface application.
- A track record of reducing operational and on-call load through automation.
- Experience completing infrastructure or dependency migrations without breaking downstream CI/CD.
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Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with cloud application streaming or remote rendering.
- Experience with asset delivery or CDN pipelines at scale.
- Experience with capacity, latency, or session-orchestration monitoring for streamed workloads.
- Experience operating live-service or large-scale production applications (Live Ops).
- Familiarity with large monorepo build systems and dependency management.
- Experience designing self-healing or auto-remediation systems.
Next Steps
Next steps will be shared with shortlisted candidates by Tuesday 11th August. If you’ve not received a response before then, please assume that at this time, your application has been unsuccessful
Client Description
Our Client is the largest social media company in the world. They have substantial B2B and B2C advertising and media platforms, as well as a nonprofit initiative. With the mission of bringing people together, they now boast over 2 billion users, and are rapidly developing as they influence the world around us.
Aquent is dedicated to improving inclusivity & is proudly an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications from under-represented groups & are committed to providing support to applicants with disabilities. We aim to provide reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, to those with a medical condition, disability or neurodivergence.
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