Senior Software Engineer - AI Automation

Software Engineer – AI & Automation 6-Month Contract | Fully Remote UK | £102,000–£120,000 per annum pro rata | Extension possible Our client is looking for a senior Software Engineer to help keep a large-scale, live UGC platform reliable across VR, mobile and PC. This is a highly technical backend role focused on AI-driven automation, cloud infrastructure and production reliability. You'll build systems that don't just detect problems — they can diagnose and increasingly fix them autonomously. What you'll do Build automation for releases, build health, crash triage and incident detection.Develop AI-assisted tooling that can identify issues and generate or land code fixes.Build systems that detect broken builds and trace failures to root-cause changes.Monitor production metrics and respond to performance regressions.Maintain backend services supporting cloud-rendered experiences.Monitor weekly deployments and ensure compatibility across VR and mobile.Automate recurring operational work, targeting an 80–90% reduction in manual on-call effort.Support infrastructure and dependency migrations without disrupting CI/CD. What you need 8+ years' software engineering experience or equivalent.Strong CI/CD, cloud deployment and production engineering experience.Experience operating backend/cloud services at scale.Proven experience building AI agents, autonomous or self-healing systems.Experience with production monitoring, incident response and root-cause analysis.Experience maintaining backend services through regular deployments.Strong ownership, autonomy and communication skills. Bonus: Cloud streaming, remote rendering, CDN/asset delivery, Live Ops, monorepos or self-healing infrastructure experience.