Principal Platform Engineer

SciPlay is a leading developer and publisher of digital games on mobile and web platforms, providing highly entertaining free-to-play games that millions of people play every day for their authenticity, engagement and fun.

SciPlay currently offers nine core games, including social casino games Jackpot Party Casino, Gold Fish Casino Slots, Hot Shot Casino and Quick Hit Slots, and casual games MONOPOLY Slots, Bingo Showdown, 88 Fortunes Slots, Backgammon Live and Solitaire Pet Adventure with offices all over the world!

Position Summary

This role:

We’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer with strong product instincts – someone who can spot friction in developer workflows, understand their needs, and take the initiative to build solutions that remove barriers. You'll work with a diverse tech stack and collaborate with developers from multiple teams to design, implement and maintain the systems that support our game development.

This role combines systems thinking, practical engineering, and a strong bias towards developer experience. You should be comfortable moving between infrastructure, backend services, automation and occasional frontend or tooling work as needed.

Who you are:

We’re looking for someone eager to innovate and challenge the status quo. You’re willing to take risks and own outcomes. You embrace working with others to overcome challenging problems. You speak up when you have ideas and welcome debate. You learn what you need to know, teach what you already know, and encourage the same in others. You lead by example and lean in to influence internal partners to build best-in-class products. You step up when you see friction and take action to make things smooth.

Who we are:

We’re a team of huge nerds distributed around the world working on SciPlay’s modern platform for our games. We thrive when we solve problems together and when we challenge each other. We strive to continually improve our skills and our culture, in both our team and throughout the company. We build empowered product teams with autonomy to make decisions and experiment to solve business problems, and we provide a cushion when things go sideways.

It’s challenging, and we love it.

What we’ll do together:

We’ll solve cool problems. We’ll build new products. We’ll develop new features.

We use the right tools for the job, which these days includes C#/.NET, Python, Go and Typescript hosted in AWS and on-prem, but we also regularly touch ADO, SQL, Grafana and Terraform.

Have some of that but not all of it? Our team will help you fill in the gaps. We care more about how you think and solve problems than syntax.

If we sound like the kind of people you want to work with, let’s talk.

What You'll Do:

• Build and evolve the Internal Developer Platform: Design and implement platform capabilities supporting CI/CD, environment management, observability, and secure-by-default infrastructure.
• Identify & Eliminate Developer Friction: Proactively discover pain points through conversations, telemetry, and hands-on investigation; apply pragmatic judgement to weigh quick wins against strategic investments; propose and deliver high-impact fixes based on business insights.
• Develop Shared Services & Tooling: Contribute to backend services, SDKs and UI components that enable teams to ship features faster and safer.
• Drive Engineering Excellence: Champion reliability, simplicity, automation and maintainability across systems and workflows.
• Build Relationships Across Teams: Partner with developers of varied backgrounds to understand requirements, gather feedback, and build trust; use those relationships to find friction and identify incremental improvements aligned with long term business goals.
• Operate What You Build: Help establish SLIs/SLOs, own operational readiness, and participate in on-call rotations for the services you support.
• Influence Technical Direction: Help shape architectural decisions, tooling standards, and long-term roadmaps for our developer platform. Use small successes to establish a pattern of trust and gradually move the Overton window of what’s achievable with future innovation.

What we're looking for:

• 5-10+ years of experience in software engineering, preferably with platform, infrastructure, or DevOps focus.
• Passion for enabling developers — you think in terms of platform as product.
• Strong ability to self-direct, identify opportunities, connect developers, and drive improvements to completion.
• Experience designing, building and operating reliable distributed systems. • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, especially with cross-functional partners.
• Proficiency in at least one of our backend languages: C#, Go, Python or Typescript.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native infrastructure (AWS preferred) and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).

Nice to Have:

• Experience working with game development or creative product teams.
• Knowledge of security, compliance, or auditability considerations for internal platforms.
• Contributions to internal developer portals or platform engineering initiatives at scale

What Success Looks Like (6-12mo):

• You’ve delivered a mix of quick wins and foundational platform improvements, leading to Internal adoption of at least one new tool, workflow or service due to your relationship-building, hands-on support and well executed rollout strategy.
• Key platform components or services you own are reliably operating in production, with clear SLIs/SLOs, documentation, and no heroics required.
• Developer friction is measurably reduced across one or more critical workflows, with positive feedback from partner teams, leading to you being seen as a multiplier – someone who solves problems directly but helps elevate engineering practices across studios.

Education:

BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent

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