Staff Infrastructure Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Australia.

📋 Description

• Develop and manage metrics, tracing, logging, and alerting platforms.

• Establish observability practices that empower product teams to take ownership of their observability.

• Enhance and unify deployment pipelines, release management, and infrastructure-as-code.

• Manage environment configurations and testing infrastructure to reduce lead times and enhance CI feedback.

• Architect secure, cost-efficient, multi-tenant, multi-region infrastructure across Australia, New Zealand, and the US.

• Collaborate with IT Operations on SOC 2 compliance controls and platform-generated evidence.

• Set SLOs and error budgets, enhance incident response and learning, and participate in on-call duties.

• Improve the developer experience with tools and abstractions that internal engineers can effectively utilize.

• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to expedite delivery.

• Mentor engineers and elevate organizational standards for reliability, operability, and developer experience.

• Operate the platform as a product with well-defined interfaces, documentation, and support.

• Define the technical roadmap and oversee a multi-quarter platform strategy.

• Influence cross-team decisions through proposals and collaboration.

• Identify critical infrastructure issues and contribute to the formation of the Infrastructure Platform team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Approximately 8 or more years of experience in software engineering, with recent work at the Staff level (or clearly operating at that level) in platform, infrastructure, or SRE.

• Extensive experience managing cloud infrastructure in production, covering compute, networking, storage, IAM, and cost management.

• Proficient in infrastructure-as-code, with a preference for AWS and Terraform.

• Proven track record of developing and maintaining observability platforms that teams rely on.

• Hands-on experience with SRE practices: SLOs, error budgets, incident response, and runbooks.

• Experience on a platform team within a product engineering organization, managing the platform as a product that teams willingly adopt.

• Strong software engineering principles with the ability to set direction and achieve outcomes without close supervision.

• Proficient in AI-assisted development tools, including agentic coding tools or LLM-assisted workflows.

• Technical expertise in AWS cloud architecture, networking, compute, storage, security, and cost optimization.

• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code design and lifecycle, ideally with Terraform.

• Familiarity with containers and orchestration, particularly ECS.

• Experience in CI/CD pipeline design and release strategies such as blue-green, canary, and progressive delivery.

• Understanding of observability systems: metrics, distributed tracing, log aggregation, and alerting.

• Knowledge of security fundamentals: IAM, network segmentation, and secrets management.

• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure patterns.

🏝️ Benefits

• Not specified in the posting