Senior Test Platform & Reliability Engineer - Star Trek Fleet Command

Scopely is looking for a Senior Test Platform & Reliability Engineer to join our Star Trek Fleet Command team in Ireland and help build the next generation of engineering validation in the game. You'll help shape the engineering platforms behind one of the world's largest live-service mobile strategy games, supporting backend systems that serve millions of players worldwide. Your mission is to design the platforms, automation, and engineering practices that enable development teams to validate performance, scalability, and reliability with production-level confidence before changes reach live.

Responsibilities

Building scalable platforms for performance, load and reliability testing; Designing automation that makes production-like validation simple, repeatable and accessible to engineering teams; Improving how we discover infrastructure bottlenecks before production through better stress testing, observability and validation workflows; Creating reusable engineering capabilities that reduce manual effort and increase confidence in every release; Driving development technical direction for internal testing platforms, reliability engineering and developer enablement; Providing technical ownership across test platform architecture and engineering standards, load/stress/scalability validation, test environment lifecycle, engineering tooling, and cross-team technical guidance.

Requirements

Strong software engineering background working with distributed systems; Experience designing or operating internal engineering platforms, developer tooling or cloud-native infrastructure; Experience with performance, scalability or reliability engineering; Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred), containers and Infrastructure as Code; Experience building automation using CI/CD platforms and modern software delivery practices; Strong programming or scripting skills (Python, Go, Bash or similar); Excellent technical communication skills and the ability to influence engineering teams through collaboration.

Nice to have

Experience with GitLab and modern CI/CD platform engineering; Experience with load or performance testing frameworks; Experience with Docker and container orchestration; Experience with Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code tooling; Experience operating large-scale live services; Experience in the games industry or other high-scale consumer platforms.