Software Engineer UK Remote role 06 months contract Rate: 49.04 to 54.81/hour on PAYE We are looking for short-term 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
Software Engineer UK Remote role 06 months contract Rate: 49.04 to 54.81/hour on PAYE We are looking for short-term 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 Top Skills: - Experience building autonomous systems that use AI: Specifically systems that are self-healing, where the AI can monitor metrics and autonomously determine the necessary actions to maintain performance without dipping below required levels. - Experience in the deployment and maintenance of backend services The role involves managing backend stacks, specifically monitoring weekly deployments of the cloud rendering system and ensuring compatibility across different user devices (e.g., VR and mobile).Job type: Contract
Category: IT & Software
Posted: 2026-09-29T19:20:48.000Z