Senior Platform Engineer (Reliability) - Unannounced Project

Scopely; España; On-site; PHP 5,535,055 - 7,995,080; Full time

Job summary

Scopely is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer (Reliability) to enhance a new multiplayer strategy game with a focus on reliability and operational excellence. This role offers remote or hybrid working options and visa sponsorship.

The ideal candidate will improve system uptime through automation and oversee performance testing and incident management. Responsibilities include driving cross-functional collaboration, cost optimization, and ensuring compliance and security within the engineering framework.

Qualifications

• Strong background in software engineering and platform practices.
• Experience in production systems management including incident response.
• Ability to navigate and improve unfamiliar codebases effectively.

Responsibilities

• Shape reliability and operational excellence in systems management.
• Drive performance testing and capacity planning.
• Implement automation to reduce operational toil.

Skills

Software engineering

SRE practices

Incident response

Terraform

Kubernetes

Go

Python

Cost optimization

Tools

AWS

Datadog

AWS Well-Architected Framework

Datadog

Job description

Scopely is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer (Reliability) to join a new truly unique multiplayer strategy game in Spain, Ireland, Portugal or the UK on a remote or hybrid basis. We can support with visa sponsorship and relocation assistance from any location.

At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.

We are in the early stages of development on an ambitious, unannounced Strategy/MMO title, creating a team of talented and passionate game makers to join us on this exciting journey!

What You Will Do

• Reliability and Operational Excellence: Shape the reliability and operational excellence engineering practices to maintain high system uptime, focusing on reducing operational toil through automation, clear ownership, and well‑defined runbooks.
• Performance and Scalability: Drive performance testing, tuning, and capacity planning to ensure systems scale effectively and meet SLAs, making informed trade-offs between cost, scalability, and reliability.
• Systems Engineering and Automation: Identify systemic manual processes and eliminate them through automation and software‑driven solutions, improving efficiency and reducing human error.
• Software and Systems Engineering: Work across services and codebases to identify, debug, and resolve reliability and performance issues, contributing code changes where necessary to improve system behavior in production.
• Security & Compliance: Embed security, compliance, and governance into Engineering Platform and delivery pipelines by default, minimizing the need for manual enforcement and ensuring data privacy and regulatory compliance.
• Observability: Design, implement, and operate observability solutions that provide actionable insights into system health, reliability, and cost, enabling teams to detect and resolve issues proactively.
• Incident Management: Participate in incident response and postmortem reviews, driving learning, systemic fixes, and preventative improvements rather than short‑term workarounds.
• Cost Optimization: Make the System cost and efficiency visible, helping teams understand and optimize their cloud usage in line with business objectives, budget constraints, and cloud governance best practices.
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration: Partner with Engineering and Product teams to shape and deliver an Engineering Platform roadmap that balances delivery speed, reliability, and long‑term sustainability.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong background in software engineering, with experience applying SRE or platform practices to improve system reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Experience owning or operating systems in production, including incident response, troubleshooting, and driving improvements based on operational learnings.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of complex systems in production and improve them over time.
• Ability to quickly navigate and understand unfamiliar codebases, proactively identifying and implementing improvements that enhance reliability, observability, and overall system health with minimal supervision.
• Experience debugging complex distributed systems and analyzing issues across service boundaries.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Passion for continuous improvement and staying current with emerging cloud, security, and automation trends.
• Infrastructure as Code: Solid experience with Terraform or similar IaC tools.
• Containerized Platforms: Experience operating containerized workloads on cloud‑native platforms (Kubernetes/EKS, ECS, or equivalent).
• Cloud Architecture: Familiarity with the AWS Well‑Architected Framework or equivalent cloud architecture standards.
• Observability & Logging: Experience designing observability strategies and implementing solutions for metrics, logs, and traces.
• Software Engineering & Automation: Strong programming skills (e.g. Go, Python, or similar) with experience building systems, tooling, or services that improve reliability and developer workflows.

Bonus points

• Experience mentoring other engineers, setting technical standards, and influencing best practices across teams.
• Experience with Observability through Datadog.
• Exposure to cost optimization, capacity planning, and cloud governance at scale.

Employment at Scopely is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications. Scopely does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.