Software Engineer

Our client is looking for Software Engineer to join their team . Duration - 6 months Location - UK Remote Summary: We are looking for Software Engineer cover to build and maintain the automation that keeps a large UGC application healthy in production across every surface it ships on. In this role you will build and operate the systems that keep a large UGC application healthy in production. It ships as a single product across multiple surfaces: natively on VR headsets, and on mobile and PC via cloud streaming (Horizon Cross Screen). You will work alongside the runtime and KTLO (keep-the-lights-on) team, focused on reducing manual operational and on-call work through automation, keeping the cloud rendering and deployment pipelines healthy, and keeping CI/CD functional as upstream dependencies change.

Responsibilities Build and maintain automation that keeps a large VR application healthy in production (release pipelines, build health, crash triage, incident detection) Maintain and improve an AI-assisted code repair system that creates and lands fix diffs autonomously Develop tooling to automatically identify broken builds, pinpoint root-cause changes, and recommend or execute fixes Monitor production quality metrics and respond to regressions and outages Reduce manual on-call burden through automation, with a goal of cutting recurring operational work by 80-90% Complete required infrastructure migrations to keep CI/CD pipelines functional as upstream dependencies are retired Requirements 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 Desirable Experience with cloud game or 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

Benefits Competitive salary Healthcare contribution and inclusion in company pension scheme Work laptop and phone 25 days annual leave (pro-rata) plus paid bank holidays Expanding workforce with potential for career progression for top performers