Job Overview
Job description
- Location:
- United States
- Work arrangement:
- On-site
Role Summary
This is a remote position.
Our client is looking for SoftwareEngineer to join their team .
Duration - 6 months
Location - UK Remote
We are looking for 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
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Healthcare contribution and inclusion in company pension scheme
- Work laptop and phone
- 25 days annual leave (pro-rata) plus paid bank holidays
- Expanding workforce with potential for career progression for top performers
- Role:
- Software Engineer
- Job Type:
- Contractor
Company profile

Mackin Talent
mackintalent.comMackin Talent is a talent staffing agency offering contingent workforce solutions, diversity programs and direct hire placements. It also provides embedded workforce and managed capability solutions that help organizations increase execution capacity, scale operations and maintain operational continuity, including a Virtual Bench of remote workers. The company says it entered the staffing industry after hearing contractors' frustrations with staffing firms and set out to address them.