<p>Scopely is looking for a <strong>Senior Platform Engineer (Reliability)</strong> 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.
</p> <p>At Scopely, we care deeply.
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.
</p> <p>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!</p> <p><strong>What You'll Do</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Messaging Systems Ownership:</strong> Operate, monitor, and continuously improve our messaging infrastructure — with a current focus on NATS cluster and NATS JetStream — ensuring it is reliable, observable, and well-understood by the teams that depend on it.
</li> <li><strong>Signals & Observability:</strong> Design and own the observability layer for distributed backend systems, defining the signals (metrics, traces, logs) that make operational problems visible and actionable — and pushing for their adoption where they don't yet exist.
</li> <li><strong>Cross-functional Diagnosis:</strong> Sit at the intersection of infrastructure and backend engineering: correlate infrastructure signals (IOPS, latency, resource saturation) with application behaviour (message throughput, consumer lag, retry storms) to diagnose root causes and guide the right teams toward the right fixes.
</li> <li><strong>SLOs & Error Budgets:</strong> Define, implement, and maintain SLO related frameworks for backend services and messaging pipelines, making reliability measurable and.