Senior Build Engineer in Horsham

The role Creative Assembly’s Total War Infrastructure Team is seeking a Senior Build Engineer to drive technical improvements and contribute to the architecture of our build systems, toolchain, CI and automated testing infrastructure that supports all Total War development teams. This is a high-impact role. Your work will directly influence developer productivity, CI stability, build cadence, automation reliability and the studio’s ability to deliver multiple large-scale projects in parallel across multiple platforms.

We are looking for someone who not only delivers but also drives technical priorities, someone who can see where the platform needs to evolve and make those changes happen. You will work closely with build engineers, tools programmers, automation teams, IT, QA and multiple game teams across the studio. As a senior engineer, you will be expected to lead initiatives, shape technical standards, mentor others and act as a point of escalation for complex issues across the infrastructure space. This is a hybrid role. We’re looking for someone who can be in the Horsham studio 1–2 days per week to collaborate closely with the team and stay connected to on-site workflows.

On a day-to-day basis, you will:

• Own and drive the evolution of CA’s multi-project build pipelines, including pre-submit, post-submit, scheduled tests, console and PC workflows.
• Define and drive improvements in CI reliability, error detection, logging standards and quality guardrails in CI.
• Strengthen the development and reliability of deployment pipelines that deliver builds to internal teams, QA and external platforms, ensuring consistent and repeatable releases across all target destinations.
• Design, build and maintain backend services such as build storage infrastructure, symbol servers, archiving systems and dashboards, ensuring they scale with studio demand.
• Write and review production-ready code, primarily in C++ and C#, setting expectations for quality, maintainability and testing.
• Join the rotating weekly support responder role to triage build/test issues across all infrastructure channels.
• Establish key metrics and dashboards that surface issues early, track reliability trends and demonstrate measurable improvement over time.
• Identify bottlenecks in hardware utilisation, storage strategy, CI capacity and build roadmap to address them.
• Support other engineers, contributing to knowledge sharing, documentation and improved engineering practices.
• Work with the automation team to integrate comprehensive quality gates into CI workflows, ensuring fast and actionable feedback for development teams.

What we are looking for:

• 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 multicomponent 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 and their application in large-scale, multi-project environments.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence across disciplines and engineering leadership.
• Comfortable balancing hands‑on technical work with broader architectural thinking.
• Experience with hardware build farms, build node provisioning and cost‑effective on‑prem resource management.
• Strong understanding of build storage, archiving strategies and performance constraints.
• Experience with large‑scale CI environments.
• Experience in improving tooling UX, dashboards, and workflow automation.

Benefits:

• Work from Anywhere for a temporary period each year (restrictions apply such as VISAs).
• Enhanced holiday allowance, maternity and paternity breaks, flexibility with our core hours, and no‑notice holidays.
• Bespoke relocation package for you and your dependents.
• Private medical and dental insurance, life insurance, permanent health insurance, critical illness cover and free health care screening.
• Additional benefits ranging from free games and work parties to discount on technology.
• Wellbeing support and virtual confidential counselling.

We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief. Our studio sites have disabled access.