Staff Engineer

As part ofSEEKs Engineering Platformsgroup Team Automat is all about building the platform interface between SEEKs preferred cloud infrastructure and application engineers the connective tissue that turns cloud infrastructure capabilities into a seamless build deploy and run experience for SEEKs core applications. 

Our mission is to make application delivery feel straightforward and predictable. Application engineers shouldnt need to reason about Kubernetes internals cloud primitives IAM or networking. Team Automat packages those concerns into well-defined platforms workflows and golden paths that enable teams to ship confidently and accelerate delivery to our customers. 

Key responsibilities of Team-Automat include: 

• Platform Interfaces: Developing the primary interfaces through which engineers interact with SEEKs internal platform including CLI tools dashboards and APIs. 

• Automation & Developer Tools: Building tools to help engineers create understand and operate systems on the platform efficiently. 

• Platform Guidance & Standards: Providing recommendations and best practices to ensure consistent high-quality developer experiences across SEEK. 

• Reliability & Resilience: Ensuring platform services are reliable observable and maintainable aligning with SEEKs engineering standards.

• Continuously improves how we build ship and operate software across SEEKs cloud environments

About the Role 

Were looking for aStaff Platform Engineerto provide senior technical leadership in theAutomat this role you will lead the design evolution and operation of ourKubernetes-based platform infrastructure shaping how SEEK engineers build deploy and run their services. Passionate about improving developer experience through shared platform solutions and scalable engineering practices. 

You will bring deep expertise incloud infrastructure a strong foundation inmodern software engineering practices and a passion formentoring and lifting others. Youll help define our platform strategy build tools and frameworks that improve developer experience and ensure our systems aresecure reliable and scalable. 

This is a role with broad impact across multiple engineering teams and domains at SEEK. 

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture development and optimisation of SEEKs Kubernetes-based internal platform.
• Design and build developer-facing tools and automation (including a central CLI) to improve deployment observability security and daytoday workflows.
• Act as a developer advocate partnering with engineering teams to understand their needs and deliver the right platform capabilities.
• Ensure platform reliability security performance and observability driving continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Set and champion platform standards best practices and modern engineering patterns across Engineering Platforms and the wider organisation.
• Lead mentor and coach engineers in a small high-impact team shaping the Automat roadmap and lifting technical excellence and delivery.

Additional Context

• Team Automat is building an internal platform on top of Kubernetes focused on developer tooling automation and observability.
• Key technologies include AWS EKS Istio Argo CD Buildkite PagerDuty and Datadog.
• The CLI and automation tooling are central to the developer experience.
• Youll work in a small high-impact team contributing to both strategy and hands-on implementation.

Qualifications :

• Proficient in creating and maintaining software in two or more modern languages preferably Golang. 

• Strong software engineering fundamentals including SDLC design patterns and software architecture principles. 

• Strongsoftware engineering skillsfor building automation tooling platform components and self-service developer experiences. 

• Platform engineering experiencebuilding and scaling distributed systems at enterprise scale. 

• Good understanding of Kubernetes for platform building including experience working with operators controllers or developer tooling. 

• Proventechnical leadershipdriving architectural decisions and strategy across multi-team or multi-tenant platforms. 

• Infrastructure as Code masterywith Terraform and Helm plus experience with GitOps workflows and CI/CD pipeline design. 

• Excellentcommunication and collaboration skills you enjoy working closely with engineers architects and stakeholders and can explain complex topics clearly. 

• Aninnovative developer-first mindset youre always looking for ways to improve systems processes and engineer experience across SEEKs cloud and platform environments. 

Additional Information :

Permanent Perks
At SEEK we offer:

• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• Support of flexible working including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
• Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days and Volunteer Days as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Support for parents with 14 weeks paid primary carers leave and 2 weeks paid leave for partners

At SEEK we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences especially as they relate to gender sexual identity culture faith disability and life stages. If you have the skills curiosity and an adaptable mindset but dont meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement please still get in touch with us.

Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

For this role only those candidates with the eligible right to work will be considered.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time