Senior Test Platform & Reliability Engineer (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Senior Test Platform & Reliability Engineer (Gamedev): Designing and building internal engineering platforms for performance, load, and reliability validation of large-scale live-service mobile games with an accent on distributed systems and infrastructure automation. Focus on creating reusable engineering capabilities, defining technical standards for scalability testing, and improving developer productivity across backend systems.

Location: Dublin, Ireland

Company

hirify.global is a leading global interactive entertainment and mobile games company, home to major titles like Star Trek Fleet Command and MONOPOLY GO!, focused on creating enduring player experiences through proprietary technology.

What you will do

• Design and build scalable platforms for performance, load, and reliability testing.
• Develop automation that makes production-like validation simple, repeatable, and accessible to engineering teams.
• Improve infrastructure bottleneck discovery through stress testing, observability, and validation workflows.
• Create reusable engineering capabilities to reduce manual effort and increase release confidence.
• Drive technical direction for internal testing platforms, reliability engineering, and developer enablement.
• Provide cross-team technical guidance for platform validation and reliability practices.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering background working with distributed systems.
• Experience designing or operating internal engineering platforms, developer tooling, or cloud-native infrastructure.
• 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 ability to influence engineering teams.

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 or in the games industry.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to build new capabilities from the ground up rather than just maintaining systems.
• Work on one of the world's largest live-service mobile strategy games.
• Collaborate with a global team of game lovers and innovators.
• Focus on engineering productivity and technical excellence.