Senior Platform Engineer
Summary
Own and evolve AWS and Kubernetes foundations, write infrastructure-as-code, set reliability targets, and improve observability and incident response for platform services.
You will own and evolve AWS and Kubernetes foundations, develop infrastructure as code, and support security, product, and data workloads. You will define reliability objectives, improve monitoring and alerting, measure system health and performance, manage incidents, and address technical debt.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve AWS and Kubernetes EKS foundations
- Develop and release infrastructure as code
- Partner with security, product, and data teams on platform support
- Define SLOs, SLIs, monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices
- Set observability standards
- Measure system health, scalability, and performance metrics
- Improve incident management, automation, and remediation
- Maintain services, address technical debt, and develop architecture patterns
Requirements
- Data reliability and observability experience
- Freshness, anomaly, and schema-drift monitoring experience
- Data SLO experience
- AWS, EKS, Kubernetes, Lambda, serverless, networking, and multi-AZ knowledge
- Terraform, CI/CD, and observability experience
- Go experience or ability to learn new languages
- AI-assisted development experience
- Identity resolution, consent, or authentication data modelling experience
- On-call ownership and alert-fatigue knowledge
Benefits
- Employee Stock Options ESOP
- Hybrid work for Sydney-based employees
- Remote work options and WeWork All-Access pass
- Daily lunch in the Sydney office
- Quarterly celebration awards and dinner
- USD 500 work-from-home allowance
- USD 600 annual internet and phone allowance
- USD 75 quarterly remote employee celebration allowance
- Medical and 401K insurance for US employees
- Novated leasing for Australian employees
- USD 800 annual health and wellbeing allowance
- Unlimited counselling through the EAP service
- ClassPass subsidy and discounted rate, including one year of Breethe membership
- Paid parental leave
- Two additional paid annual leave days
- Paid birthday leave