Platform Engineer (Reliability) - Unannounced Project

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. We can support with visa sponsorship and relocation assistance from any location. At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily. We are in the early stages of development on an ambitious, unannounced Strategy/MMO title, creating a team of talented and passionate game makers to join us on this exciting journey! ### 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 Scalibility: 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 pir 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. ### What We’re Looking For