Russell Tobin
Software Engineer
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Software Engineer IV (Contract)
Location: Remote UK
Contract: 6 Months
Hours: Full-time (40 hours per week)
About the Role
We're looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join a team responsible for maintaining and improving the reliability of a large-scale, live user-generated content (UGC) platform used across VR, mobile, and PC.
This is an opportunity to work on highly scalable backend systems where the focus is on automation, platform reliability, AI-assisted engineering, and cloud infrastructure. Rather than building new product features, you'll develop intelligent systems that reduce operational overhead, improve deployment health, and keep production services running smoothly.
If you enjoy solving complex engineering problems, building autonomous systems, and improving developer productivity through automation, this is an excellent opportunity.
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What You'll Be Doing
- Design and build automation to improve production health, release pipelines, and deployment reliability.
- Develop AI-assisted tooling capable of identifying, diagnosing, and automatically resolving software issues.
- Build systems that detect broken builds, identify root causes, and recommend or apply fixes.
- Monitor production environments, investigate incidents, and improve overall service reliability.
- Reduce manual operational effort and on-call workload through intelligent automation.
- Support infrastructure and dependency migrations while ensuring CI/CD pipelines remain stable.
- Work closely with runtime and infrastructure engineers supporting large-scale production systems.
What We're Looking For
Essential Skills
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong experience building and operating CI/CD, release, and cloud deployment pipelines.
- Experience managing production backend services at scale.
- Experience building AI-assisted developer tools, autonomous systems, or self-healing platforms.
- Strong understanding of production monitoring, incident response, and crash analysis.
- Experience identifying and resolving build failures through automation.
- Proven ability to reduce operational overhead using automation.
- Experience delivering infrastructure migrations without disrupting production services.
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Desirable Experience
- Cloud gaming, remote rendering, or application streaming.
- CDN or large-scale asset delivery platforms.
- Live service or LiveOps environments.
- Large monorepo build systems.
- Automated remediation or self-healing infrastructure.
- Capacity planning, latency monitoring, or session orchestration.
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