# Platform Engineer (Reliability) - Unannounced Project at Scopely

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- **Company:** Scopely (https://jobs.trythestack.co/companies/scopely)
- **Location:** ES - Spain
- **Work arrangement:** On-site
- **Employment type:** Full-time
- **Experience level:** 5–10 years
- **Visa sponsorship:** Offered, according to the listing
- **Key skills:** SRE, Platform Engineering, Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, Go, Python, Observability, Incident Management, Capacity Planning, Distributed Systems, Infrastructure as Code, Cloud Architecture, Automation, Performance Tuning, Security & Compliance
- **Posted by employer:** 2026-06-16
- **Added to The Stack:** 2026-06-17
- **Status:** May no longer be active (posted more than 60 days ago)
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/scopely/jobs/5081833008?gh_jid=5081833008 (the employer's own application page)
- **Human page:** https://jobs.trythestack.co/jobs/platform-engineer-reliability-unannounced-project-scopely

## About the role

Responsibilities:
- Define and drive reliability, operational excellence, and SRE practices to maximise uptime and reduce operational toil.
- Automate manual operational work: build tooling, runbooks, and software-driven solutions to improve platform efficiency.
- Lead performance testing, tuning, and capacity planning to meet SLAs and scale multiplayer/MMO systems.
- Implement observability: metrics, traces, and logging to enable proactive detection and fast incident resolution.
- Participate in incident response, lead postmortems, and drive long-term fixes and preventive measures.
- Embed security, compliance, and governance into platform delivery pipelines and operational practices.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to shape the engineering platform roadmap balancing delivery speed, cost, and reliability.

Requirements:
- Strong software engineering background with hands-on SRE or platform engineering experience running production services.
- Proficiency with container platforms (Kubernetes), IaC (Terraform), and cloud environments (AWS/EKS or equivalents).
- Experience in Go or Python and debugging complex distributed systems in production.
- Deep observability and incident management experience (alerts, runbooks, postmortems).
- Understanding of capacity planning, cost optimisation, and cloud governance best practices.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across engineering and product teams; prior experience with large-scale games or MMO infrastructure is a plus.

## Responsibilities

The role focuses on shaping reliability and operational excellence to maintain high system uptime and reduce operational toil through automation. Responsibilities include driving performance testing, implementing observability solutions, and managing incident response for a new multiplayer strategy game.

## Requirements

Candidates need a strong software engineering background with experience in SRE practices, containerized platforms like Kubernetes, and IaC tools like Terraform. Proficiency in Go or Python and experience debugging complex distributed systems in production are required.

## FAQ

- **Is this Platform Engineer (Reliability) - Unannounced Project role still open?** It was posted on 2026-06-16. Listings more than 30 days old may no longer be active, so check Scopely's site before applying.
- **Does Scopely offer visa sponsorship?** This listing is marked as offering visa sponsorship. Eligibility rules are set by the employer, so check the details on Scopely's site.
- **Where is this role located?** The listing gives the location as ES - Spain. It is marked on-site.
- **What skills does this role ask for?** The listing names: SRE, Platform Engineering, Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, Go, Python, Observability, Incident Management, Capacity Planning, Distributed Systems, Infrastructure as Code, Cloud Architecture, Automation, Performance Tuning, Security & Compliance.

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