Software Engineer

Mackin Talent

. Build and maintain automation that keeps a large VR application healthy in production, including release pipelines, build health, crash triage, and incident detection .

Posted 9/28/2026contractRemote • United KingdomSeniorLeadWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in building and operating CI/CD pipelines, cloud deployment, and automation to enhance production quality and reduce operational burdens. Proficient in developing AI-assisted tooling for code repair and monitoring large-scale applications across various platforms.

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CI/CD Pipeline DevelopmentCloud Services OperationAI-Assisted Developer ToolingProduction MonitoringInfrastructure Migration

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Hard Skills

Software EngineeringAutomationIncident ResponseBuild System ManagementRoot-Cause AnalysisSelf-Healing SystemsAsset Delivery PipelinesCapacity MonitoringLatency ManagementLive-Service Operations

Tools & Technologies

Cloud StreamingCDN PipelinesVR ApplicationsUGC ApplicationsMonorepo Management

Industry Keywords

Production Quality MetricsCrash TriageIncident DetectionOperational Load ReductionDependency Management

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and maintain automation that keeps a large VR application healthy in production, including release pipelines, build health, crash triage, and incident detection
Maintain and improve an AI-assisted code repair system that creates and lands fix diffs autonomously
Develop tooling to identify broken builds automatically, 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
Work alongside the runtime and KTLO team
Build and operate systems for a large UGC application across VR headsets, mobile, and PC via cloud streaming

Requirements

What you’ll need

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
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

Comp & perks

Competitive salary
Healthcare contribution
Inclusion in company pension scheme
Work laptop and phone
25 days annual leave (pro-rata)
Paid bank holidays
Potential for career progression for top performers