Senior Build Tools Engineer

Overview

As Senior Build Tools Engineer, you drive the evolution of our multi-project build pipelines and CI/automation infrastructure to support parallel, large-scale Total War development. You shape standards, mentor teammates, and own critical improvements that boost developer productivity and CI stability. This role blends hands-on coding with architectural leadership, influencing tools and workflows across the studio. You’ll collaborate across build, tools, QA, and game teams, delivering scalable solutions in a hybrid Horsham setup.

Pay / Benefits

• Work from Anywhere for a temporary period
• Enhanced holiday allowance
• Maternity and paternity breaks
• Performance-based discretionary bonus
• Bespoke relocation package
• Private medical and dental insurance

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve CA’s multi-project build pipelines (pre-submit, post-submit, tests, console/PC workflows)
• Improve CI reliability, error detection, logging standards, and quality guardrails
• Strengthen deployment pipelines for internal and external platforms with consistent releases
• Design and maintain backend services (build storage, symbol servers, archiving, dashboards) at scale
• Write production-ready C++ and C# code, with emphasis on quality and testing
• Participate in rotating on-call support to triage build/test issues
• Establish metrics and dashboards to surface reliability trends and improvements
• Identify bottlenecks in hardware utilization, storage, CI capacity, and build roadmaps
• Support engineers through knowledge sharing, documentation, and enhanced practices
• Collaborate with test automation to integrate quality gates into CI for fast feedback

Key requirements

• Strong experience designing, operating and improving build systems, CI/CD pipelines or DevOps platforms at scale
• Strong programming ability in C++, plus C# or an equivalent scripting language
• Deep debugging skills across complex multi-component systems
• Experience with console automation (PS5/Xbox)
• Experience with online store APIs (e.g. Steam/MS)
• Familiarity with Perforce or similar version control systems in large team environments
• Familiarity with branching strategies in large-scale, multi-project environments
• Strong communication skills to influence across disciplines and leadership
• Comfortable balancing hands-on work with architectural thinking

• cross-functional collaboration
• influencing and leadership
• problem-solving under complexity
• C++
• C#
• CI/CD

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