Lead Software Engineer Platform

At Halter were on a mission to enable farmers and graziers to run the most productive and sustainable operations. Our customers are using Halter to break free from the time-intensive constraints of conventional practices. Imagine watching 500 cattle stand up and walk calmly towards their next break No quad bikes no dogs no fences. Just a group of cattle walking at their own pace. People say it looks like magic. Our customers are revolutionizing grazing with Halter. Its changing lives and transforming an industry. People join Halter to do meaningful work. By joining us youll be solving challenging problems within a talented team and a culture built for high performance. Our team out-think out-work and out-care. Were committed to delivering real change in the world - this isnt easy and in truth we love that its hard.

Were backed to deliver on a mission that matters by Tier 1 investors including Founders Fund Bessemer Venture Partners BOND DCVC Blackbird Promus Ventures Rocket Labs Peter Beck and Icehouse ventures.

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About the role
At Halter our platform is what turns ambitious engineering into farmer and rancher impact. Every collar on every cow every grazing break a farmer or rancher sets and every alert a vet acts on depends on infrastructure thats reliable secure and easy for our engineers to build on. As Halter grows globally and our systems handle billions of daily events from the paddock the platform underneath needs to scale with us without slowing anyone down.

Were looking for a Lead Engineer to join our Platform team to set the direction for how we build run and evolve the systems that everything else at Halter sits on. Youll combine deep technical expertise with the leadership to shape how a fast-growing engineering organisation thinks about cloud infrastructure developer experience security and AI-assisted engineering.

Day-to-day youll partner closely with engineering teams across the business including
backend embedded ML and data to make sure the platform accelerates their velocity rather
than gating it. Whether its evolving our internal AI tooling into something the whole org relies
on building golden paths that make the right thing the easy thing hardening our cloud security
posture or keeping our collar-to-cloud pipeline rock-solid as we scale youll own problems
end-to-end. If you want your work to multiply the impact of every other engineer at Halter this is the role.

What youll do

• Drive how Halter leverages AI tooling to accelerate development. Weve already invested in internal AI infrastructure that engineers rely on day-to-day and youll evolve it from an engineering-team tool into something the whole org leans on. Youll own the adoption patterns the guardrails and the force-multiplier use cases from automated CI-failure triage to PR review bots to AI-summarised build notifications.

• Build out the tooling guardrails and golden paths that make it easy for other engineers to ship safely and quickly. The right paved roads multiply every engineers impact and youll shape where ours go next.

• Set the technical direction for our cloud infrastructure as Halter scales globally making the architecture decisions that balance velocity cost reliability and operational simplicity.

• Bake security into the platform through guardrails and sensible defaults so the secure path is also the easy path for every team. Youll set the direction across IAM network policy secrets management and supply chain.

• Keep our core compute and orchestration layer reliable at the scale farmers and ranchers depend on day in and day out.

• Drive observability and incident tooling forward treating on-call as a signal rather than a cost. Engineers should be able to detect diagnose and resolve issues before they reach farmers and ranchers.

• Automate infrastructure management through Infrastructure-as-Code CI/CD pipelines and internal tooling that reduces operational load over time.

• Lead cross-functional architecture discussions and help define and evolve platform practices and standards across the organisation balancing pragmatic delivery with long-term maintainability.

• Mentor and grow other engineers through design conversations code reviews and generous context sharing.

• Be part of an on-call rotation working with a highly skilled team to resolve incidents and put preventative measures in place.

Who were looking for

• You have deep experience building and operating AWS at scale with strong fluency in container orchestration cloud networking and Infrastructure-as-Code.

• Youve led platform or infrastructure work in a high-growth environment and youre comfortable setting direction across multiple teams.

• Backend product development experience is a plus since it helps you understand how engineers build products and what they need from the platform underneath them.

• You understand what good developer experience looks like and youve built golden paths paved roads or internal platforms that engineers reach for instead of rolling their own.

• You treat security as a first-class part of platform engineering not an afterthought and have hands-on experience hardening cloud environments.

• Youre excited about how AI tooling can change the way engineering teams work and you have a point of view on where it adds leverage versus where it adds risk. Bonus if youve built an AI agent or AI-assisted tooling in production. We have internal AI infrastructure of our own and well want your point of view on where it goes next.

• You understand how to build systems that are observable testable and easy to debug at scale.

• Youre a strong communicator who leads through influence aligning teams around shared goals raising the bar on practices and championing reliability across the organisation.

• You embrace ambiguity. At Halter the biggest platform problems rarely come with a clear spec. Youre comfortable navigating uncertainty and making pragmatic calls.

• Youre a highly effective collaborator who lifts the people around you through clear communication generous knowledge sharing and a low ego.

• Importantly were looking for someone who is passionate about what they do motivated by impact and eager to keep learning.

Halter is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace a place where we can each be ourselves and do the best work of our lives. Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the requirements women and under-represented groups of candidates tend to only apply when they meet every requirement. If you think you have what it takes but dont necessarily tick every requirement on this job description please still get in touch and apply to Halter. Wed love to chat to see if youll be an epic fit!

If this opportunity sounds like you please apply below by sending through your cover letter explaining why youre excited about this role and working at Halter along with your CV and well be in touch!

Please also feel free to check out the careers page for more information on working at Halter and dont forget to follow us on LinkedIn & Instagram.

• Work that genuinely matters. Every now and again a company comes along that transforms an entire industry and leaves the world in a better place. Our team gets to be part of something truly meaningful helping farmers improve their livelihoods spend more time with their families and build more sustainable operations.

• Spectacular people solving hard problems. Our culture is designed for talented people to do work that changes lives. The team is filled with diverse kind and driven people who push each other to do their best work. Youll be thrown into the deep end tackling complex challenges and building something tangible that solves real problems.

• Youll grow here. Autonomy mastery and learning define how we work. Youll have the freedom to work on interesting problems master new skills and continuously develop yourself both through your role and our $1000 personal growth fund.

• This isnt easy and we love that its hard. Working at Halter will be the most rewarding and the most challenging work of your life. We move fast take bold bets and work hard to reshape an entire industry. As one team member put it: Joining Halter is a bit like strapping yourself to a rocket ship but its an epic journey to be a part of!

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