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Russell Tobin

Software Engineer- Horizon Experiences

Hybrid

London, United kingdom

Freelance

26-09-2025

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Skills

Python C# PHP Unity SQL Data Engineering Incident Response CI/CD Research Software Development C++ Android

Job Specifications

Software Engineer- 06 Months Contract- Hybrid in Kings Cross, London (3days in office)

Salary Range: 53GBP to 57GBP/hr inside IR35

Job Description:

Reality Labs mission is "To give people the tools to feel connected anytime, anywhere." The teams working on augmented and virtual reality technologies at client are on a mission to build the next computing platform centered around people. We continue to push the state-of-the-art with groundbreaking research into emerging technologies and hardware that will help bring this vision to life.

The Horizon Spaces Pillar is responsible for building the Horizon Worlds application, the Horizon creation tools, the multiplayer services that allow you to play with others, the user experience for transitioning between worlds, key capabilities used inside worlds, and many of the 1st party spaces people first experience as the (Horizon Home, Central, Events, and the MR Playground).

This Runtime & Asset Pipeline team is part of Horizon-Experiences Runtime & Foundations in the client org. The team is responsible for improving Horizon Worlds features and reliability for all client 1st party apps. In this role, you will work closely with multiple partners in Horizon Experiences and Spaces with significant EMEA and US presence.

The roles involve Runtime Stability and Performance improvements and profiling in a Unity/C#/Performance stack. System generalists and product generalists profiles.

These engineers would be part of an existing team; duties include providing a 1st line diagnostic and resolution of problems with clear incident response.

What does a strong candidate look like?

Meets Common Job Requirements below and, in addition
Experience with client Horizon project C#
Experience with Unity C#
Experience with client internal tools such as Phabricator, Sandcastle, Buck.
Experience with CI/CD concepts such as pipelines, jobs, alerts, managing build capacity.
Experience debugging and troubleshooting complex systems
Experience with SQL and data engineering

Software development experience in Python, C#, C++, Hack/php

Experience in build systems
Experience with Android and Unity is nice to have
Experience with Bazel, buck is nice to have
Experience with code coverage tooling

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