Software Engineer

Mackin Talent; United States; Remote; USD 159,000 - 212,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Healthcare contribution and pension

Work laptop and phone

25 days annual leave

Career progression for top performers

Job summary

Mackin Talent seeks a Software Engineer for a remote UK-based assignment to build and operate automation that keeps a large UGC application healthy in production across surfaces such as VR, mobile and PC cloud streaming.

You will contribute to release pipelines, crash triage, incident detection, and AI-assisted tooling to repair code and reduce on-call work, while ensuring CI/CD remains healthy as dependencies evolve.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 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.
• Experience building or operating AI-assisted developer tooling.
• Experience diagnosing broken builds and tracing root-causes.
• Experience production monitoring, crash triage, and incident response.
• Track record reducing on-call load through automation.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain automation that keeps a large VR application healthy in production.
• Maintain and improve AI-assisted code repair systems.
• Develop tooling to identify broken builds and pinpoint root causes.
• Monitor production quality metrics and respond to regressions and outages.
• Reduce manual on-call burden through automation.
• Complete required infrastructure migrations to keep CI/CD pipelines functional.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud deployment

Production monitoring

Incident response

AI-assisted tooling

Root-cause analysis

Automation

Tools

Monorepo build systems

Dependency management

CI/CD tooling

Job description

This is a remote position. Our client is looking for SoftwareEngineer 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

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