Platform Engineer Reliability – Unannounced Project

Platform Engineer Reliability – Unannounced Project Overview

Scopely is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer (Reliability) to join a new multiplayer strategy game project. This position can be performed remotely or in a hybrid setting from Spain, Ireland, Portugal, or the UK. The company is committed to supporting visa sponsorship and relocation assistance for candidates from any location.

Responsibilities

• Manage and enhance the messaging infrastructure, focusing on NATS cluster and NATS JetStream to ensure its reliability and observability.
• Design and oversee the observability layer for distributed backend systems, establishing metrics, traces, and logs to make operational issues visible and actionable.
• Analyze infrastructure signals and application behavior to diagnose root causes of issues and guide teams towards effective solutions.
• Establish and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for backend services and messaging pipelines, aiding teams in balancing speed and stability.
• Create and maintain reliability tools, runbooks, and operational frameworks to empower engineers to address operational concerns independently.
• Collaborate with backend, infrastructure, and product engineers to set reliability standards and influence architectural decisions proactively.
• Lead or assist in incident response efforts, conduct postmortems to identify systemic issues, and implement preventative measures in engineering processes.
• Engage with infrastructure and backend codebases to identify and rectify operational risks and improve service instrumentation.

Requirements

• Proven experience in Site Reliability Engineering, production operations, or backend engineering with a strong operational focus.
• Hands-on experience with NATS and/or NATS JetStream in production, or equivalent expertise with distributed messaging systems like Apache Kafka or AWS Kinesis.
• Familiarity with concepts such as Leader Election, RAFT consensus, and log replication.
• Ability to navigate and analyze application codebases (e.g., C#, Go, Python) to identify instrumentation gaps and operational anti-patterns.
• Strong background in designing and implementing observability strategies across distributed systems.
• Experience in debugging complex distributed systems, particularly at the intersection of infrastructure and application layers.
• Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, and experience with containerized workloads (ECS, Kubernetes/EKS).
• Excellent communication skills to effectively convey operational risks to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Advocate for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles in managing infrastructure and operational metrics.

Benefits

• Visa sponsorship and relocation assistance available for candidates from any location.
• Opportunity to work in a remote or hybrid environment.
• Be part of a global team dedicated to creating engaging gaming experiences.

Degree Requirement: Not Specified

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