[Hiring] Platform Engineer (Reliability) @Scopely

Role 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.

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 the 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Company Description

Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time “MONOPOLY GO!” and “Pokémon GO.”

Founded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team — including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe, a distinctive tenet-driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami.

Recognized multiple times as one of the "100 Most Influential Companies in the World" by TIME magazine and one of Fast Company's "World's Most Innovative Companies," Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good — creating meaningful connections, vibrant communities, and making life better through play.