Principal Platform Engineer
Principal Platform Engineer
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19-06-2025
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Principal Platform Engineer
DevEx GitLab and Doing Things Properly
Sydney hybrid
Tired of being the DevEx janitor
Youve spent your career improving developer experience. Often cleaning up messes you didnt make with half the influence you needed.
This time youll lead the strategy. Define the roadmap. And fix things the right way with the runway and support to back it up.
In your first 6 months youll lead a GitLab migration and build the platform experience that 150 engineers actually rely on. From CI to observability in an environment where DevEx isnt an afterthought.
Responsibilities have been deliberately split.
Theres a team focused on Linux infrastructure. And a dedicated Platform team (yours) focused on internal enablement.
Your mission is to help developers build faster and better.
Instead of juggling conflicting priorities youll have the space to go deep on DevEx. To design build and scale the tooling that makes a real difference to how engineers work.
You wont be firefighting production in AWS. Youll be building systems that improve velocity clarity and developer confidence. From GitLab and CI/CD to observability automation and security workflows.
The messy stuff (the good kind)
Right now some of the smartest engineers are working on FPGA systems AI models and radar tech. But their workflows dont always keep pace. GitLab adoption is still growing CI/CD varies across teams and tooling is evolving.
This role is your chance to bring consistency and scale DevEx across a truly unique engineering environment.
The maturity level is what youd expect from a fast-paced scale-up theres advocacy for change which means more opportunity to shape things properly. Youre not maintaining someone elses mess; youre helping define the platform strategy and centralise tooling from the ground up.
This is a Principal role. Youll have real influence. Youll shape direction. Youll prioritise the roadmap. Youll help grow the team around you. And youll be trusted to get on with it. No micromanagement no status also have the flexibility to work in a hybrid setup with a mix of in-office collaboration and remote focus time based on what works best for you and the team.
The work is visible. The impact is real. And the runway is long.
Want a DevEx challenge with some teethWere looking for someone at the Principal level. Not just technically sharp but able to tell the story ofwhythings were built the way they were. If youve led DevEx improvements driven adoption of CI/CD or untangled the mess between dev and infra teams we want to hear about it.
Youll also need to be comfortable working close to the metal. Proficiency in backend systems programming or scripting (Go Python Bash) is important as youll need to build tools that engineers actually use.
Dont worry if your CV isnt ready. Lets talk.
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