platform engineer

Scopely is a global video game and interactive entertainment company that creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates games across mobile, web, PC, and console platforms. Its portfolio includes MONOPOLY GO!, Pokémon GO, Stumble Guys, and other games reaching hundreds of millions of players worldwide.

• Operate, monitor, and continuously improve messaging infrastructure, currently focused on NATS cluster and NATS JetStream;
• Design and own the observability layer for distributed backend systems, defining metrics, traces, and logs and driving their adoption;
• Correlate infrastructure signals with application behaviour to diagnose root causes and guide teams toward fixes;
• Define, implement, and maintain SLO-related frameworks for backend services and messaging pipelines;
• Build and maintain reliability tooling, runbooks, and operational frameworks as internal products;
• Partner with backend, infrastructure, and product engineers to shape reliability standards, share operational context, and influence architecture decisions;
• Lead or contribute to incident response across messaging and backend layers;
• Drive postmortems toward systemic fixes and embed preventative improvements into engineering workflows;
• Navigate infrastructure and backend codebases to identify instrumentation gaps, inadequate infrastructure architecture, missing error handling, and operational risks;
• Contribute improvements in close collaboration with engineering teams.

• Strong background in Site Reliability Engineering, production operations, or backend engineering with a significant operational focus;
• Hands-on production experience with NATS, NATS JetStream, or equivalent distributed messaging systems such as Apache Kafka or AWS Kinesis;
• Experience with Leader Election, RAFT consensus, and log replication;
• Ability to reason about application codebases such as C#, Go, Python, or similar;
• Ability to identify instrumentation gaps, operational anti-patterns, and code-level root causes;
• Strong experience designing and implementing metrics, logs, and traces strategies across distributed systems;
• Experience debugging complex distributed systems across infrastructure and application layers;
• Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, and containerized workloads such as ECS or Kubernetes/EKS;
• Strong communication skills and ability to translate between infrastructure and application engineers and explain operational risk to non-technical stakeholders;
• Infrastructure-as-Code-first approach to managing infrastructure, SLOs, monitors, and dashboards through code;
• Nice to have: Direct NATS JetStream experience, Datadog or equivalent, database-level operational concerns, data modeling, mentoring engineers, driving reliability culture across teams.

• Remote or hybrid work is available in Spain, Ireland, Portugal, or the UK;
• Visa sponsorship and relocation assistance are available from any location.