Software Engineer

About Netcraft

Netcraft is the global leader in cybercrime detection and disruption. Were a trusted partner for three of the four largest companies in the world and many large governments. Weve blocked almost 200 million cyber-attacks to date and we take down around 33% of the worlds phishing attacks.

Our purpose and passion are focused on just one thing: protecting the world from cybercrime.

That passion shapes how we work too. Were proud of our talented team and the value each person brings and weve built a workplace where people feel supported and inspired. From strong benefits and wellness programs to meaningful collaboration and team connection.

The Role

Were searching for aSoftware Engineerto join our growing engineering team. Based in Melbourne youll report to one of our Engineering Team Leads and work on the backend of our broad range of Internet exploration and cybercrime detection and disruption services.

A key part of this role is building maintaining and improving the applications that support our core services. Were looking for engineers who take ownership of production systems and care deeply about reliability performance and stability while also contributing to ongoing improvements across the stack.

Day to dayyoullbe

• Designing and developing new features and improvements to our products while taking non-functional requirements like performance reliability and security into account.
• Developing different scrapers for different sites/endpoints.
• Maintaining and improvingexisting systems (based on different languages like Go/Typescript etc) ensuring stability maintainability and operational reliability.
• Testing and documenting your work to ahigh standard with strong attention to detail.
• Taking responsibility forsystem maintenance operational stability and incident prevention.
• Responding to issues with asense of urgency and ownership identifying root causes and implementing long-term fixes.
• Identifying scaling bottlenecks and resolving them while being conscious of running costs.
• Collaborating with other engineering teams to ensure services you own are well-integrated with their services.
• Working with cross-functional stakeholders to help propose design and implement solutions to meet business needs.
• Workingindependently and proactively identifying opportunities to improve systems and processes over time.

Whatyoullneed to be successful

• Experience developing and maintainingproduction backend systems required experience inGolang.
• Hands on experience using TypeScript
• The ability towork independently and take ownershipof services and systems.
• Strongattention to detail particularly when working with production systems.
• A proactive mindset with asense of urgency when addressing operational issues or incidents.
• Experience working withSQL databases(such as MySQL or MariaDB) including schema design for both OLTP and OLAP workloads and writing and optimising complex queries.
• Familiarity with commonUnix command line tools(such as sed grep and AWK) and shell scriptingLinux package managerssuch as RPM or dpkgconfiguration management tools such as Puppet.
• Experience usingAmazon EC2 S3 RDS and SQS or equivalent services at other cloud providers.
• A good understanding ofcomputer networking technologies including TCP IPv4 IPv6 DNS HTTP and TLS.
• Good written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey technical concepts clearly and concisely.

Bonus points for experience with Terraform Android Emulator scraper development asynchronous or event-driven Perl OpenSearch OpenAPI AI tools such as Cursor or Claude and container technologies like Docker or Kubernetes.

AtNetcraftwe strongly believe in individual growth and development. Even if youcanttick every box above right now pleasedontlet it put you off applying.

The Rewards Package:

• 20 days Annual Leave and 15 days Personal Leave per annum
• 12% employer superannuation contribution
• Employer contributions to private health insurance
• Life Assurance at 4 x salary
• Generous enhanced Parental leave and pay entitlements
• Equity tracking scheme (eligibility criteria apply) - allowing you share in Netcrafts long term success
• (Sonder) Comprehensive health safety and wellness service available 24/7 for you and your family
• Two paid Learning & Development days per year plus access to learning resources such as Udemy and Coursera to support your career
• Two Volunteering Days per year to allow you to contribute to your wider community or charity
• Meals snacks and drinks provided daily in the office
• Employee Referral Bonus scheme
• Hybrid and flexible working options
• Spot reward bonus scheme to reward truly outstanding contributions

Diversity Equity & Inclusion

This is deeply important to us. Through our ally network we support under-represented groups andmaintaina working environment free from bias harassment or discrimination. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

Were also happy to make adjustments to the hiring process to ensure every candidate can participate fully.

Please note: Netcraft does not accept unsolicited approaches from external recruiters.