Senior AI Automation Backend Engineer

Senior Software Engineer – AI Automation & Backend Location: Remote (UK based candidates only) Contract: 6 months Hours: 40 hours/week Client: Leading global technology company We’re looking for a highly experienced Software Engineer to join a specialist engineering team working on a large-scale user-generated content platform spanning VR, mobile and cloud streaming. This is a backend-focused role for someone who enjoys solving complex production problems through automation, AI-driven tooling and self-healing systems rather than traditional feature development. What you’ll be doing Build and maintain automation for a large-scale live application, covering release pipelines, build health, crash detection and incident response.Develop AI-assisted developer tooling capable of identifying issues, generating fixes and automating remediation.Build systems that can detect broken builds, identify root causes and recommend or execute corrective actions.Monitor production quality, performance and reliability metrics and respond to regressions.Automate recurring operational and on-call activities, with a strong focus on reducing manual intervention.Maintain and improve backend services supporting cloud-rendered experiences across VR and mobile.Monitor regular deployments and ensure compatibility across different platforms and user experiences.Manage infrastructure and dependency migrations while keeping CI/CD pipelines operational.Take ownership of production issues from identification through to resolution. What we’re looking for 8+ years' professional software engineering experience.Strong experience building and operating CI/CD, build, release and cloud deployment pipelines at scale.Experience operating backend/cloud services in production, including reliability, capacity and latency considerations.Proven experience building or operating AI-assisted developer tooling, autonomous agents or code-repair systems.Experience developing systems that can automatically detect failures and trace them back to their root cause.Strong production monitoring, crash triage and incident-response experience.Demonstrable experience using automation to reduce operational or on-call workload.Experience managing infrastructure or dependency migrations without disrupting downstream CI/CD.Strong communication skills and the ability to work independently in an ambiguous environment. Nice to have Cloud gaming, application streaming or remote rendering experience.Experience with asset delivery or CDN platforms at scale.Experience monitoring capacity, latency or session orchestration for streamed workloads.Live-service / large-scale production application experience.Experience with large monorepos and dependency management.Experience designing self-healing or auto-remediation systems. Why this role? This is a chance to work on a large-scale, high-traffic technology platform where the focus is on using AI to fundamentally change how production systems are maintained. You’ll be tackling problems around autonomous remediation, production reliability, cloud rendering and cross-platform compatibility, with significant ownership over the solutions you build. The ideal person will be comfortable operating independently, taking ownership of ambiguous technical problems and communicating proactively when they hit a blocker. If you have strong experience across backend engineering, production infrastructure and AI-driven automation, I’d be keen to hear from you.