Software Engineer [AQ-20618]

Aquent; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Aquent, on behalf of a pioneering technology company, seeks a software engineering professional to help build and operate health‑critical cloud pipelines for a large-scale user-generated content platform across VR, mobile, and PC via cloud streaming.

You will collaborate with runtime and operations teams to automate workflows, reduce manual toil, and strengthen CI/CD resilience while maintaining performance and reliability for billions of users.

Qualifications

• Solid professional software engineering experience.
• Experience building and operating CI/CD, build, release at scale.
• Experience operating cloud services and server fleets in production for reliability and latency.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted developer tooling.
• Experience detecting broken builds and tracing root causes.
• Production monitoring, crash triage and incident response experience.
• Proven record reducing on-call load through automation.
• Experience completing complex infrastructure or dependency migrations without disruption.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain automation to ensure the health of a large-scale production application.
• Operate an AI-assisted code repair system to autonomously identify, fix, and land changes.
• Develop tooling to detect broken builds and suggest or implement fixes.
• Monitor production quality metrics and respond to regressions and outages.
• Reduce manual on-call burden through automation (aim for 80–90%).
• Migrate infrastructure while keeping CI/CD pipelines fully functional as dependencies evolve.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud deployment

Production reliability

Automated incident response

Monitoring triage

Tools

AI-assisted tooling

Monorepo tooling

Job description

Aquent is proud to partner with a pioneering technology company that stands at the forefront of building immersive digital experiences and connecting billions worldwide. This organization is renowned for its innovative platforms that power vast user-generated content ecosystems and push the boundaries of virtual reality and cloud streaming technologies, shaping the future of digital interaction.

Are you ready to make a profound impact, ensuring a massive user-generated content application runs flawlessly across cutting-edge VR platforms, mobile devices, and PCs via cloud streaming? This is your chance to join a dynamic team dedicated to building the robust, intelligent systems that keep production environments healthy, responsive, and resilient. You will be at the heart of maintaining system integrity, reducing manual toil, and ensuring a seamless experience for users globally, directly contributing to the success and reliability of groundbreaking digital interactions.

The Opportunity

In this critical role, you will be instrumental in building and operating the foundational systems that guarantee the health and stability of a large-scale user-generated content application in production. You will collaborate closely with runtime and operations teams, focusing on transforming manual processes into automated workflows, ensuring cloud rendering and deployment pipelines are robust, and maintaining CI/CD functionality amidst evolving dependencies. Your contributions will directly enhance reliability, accelerate development cycles, and significantly reduce operational overhead.

What You’ll Do

• Build and maintain advanced automation solutions to ensure the continuous health of a large-scale application in production, covering release pipelines, build integrity, crash triage, and incident detection.
• Enhance and operate an AI-assisted code repair system that autonomously identifies, fixes, and lands code changes.
• Develop sophisticated tooling to automatically detect broken builds, pinpoint root-cause changes, and propose or execute necessary fixes.
• Proactively monitor production quality metrics, responding swiftly to regressions and outages to maintain high service standards.
• Champion the reduction of manual on-call burden through innovative automation, targeting an 80–90% decrease in recurring operational work.
• Execute essential infrastructure migrations, ensuring CI/CD pipelines remain fully functional as upstream dependencies are updated or retired.

What You’ll Bring

• Solid professional software engineering experience, or equivalent.
• Proven expertise in building and operating CI/CD, build, release, and cloud deployment pipelines at scale.
• Extensive experience operating cloud services and server-side fleets in production, with a strong focus on reliability, capacity management, and latency optimization.
• Hands-on experience building or operating AI-assisted developer tooling or agents for code generation or repair.
• Demonstrated experience in developing tooling that detects broken builds and accurately traces failures to their root-cause changes.
• Proficiency in production monitoring, crash triage, and incident response for large-scale, multi-surface applications.
• A strong track record of successfully reducing operational and on-call load through automation.
• Experience in completing complex infrastructure or dependency migrations without disrupting downstream CI/CD processes.

Bonus Points

• Experience with cloud game or application streaming, or remote rendering technologies.
• Familiarity 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.

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.