Staff Engineer - Platforms
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Job Description
The Team
Part of SEEKs Engineering Platforms group the Developer Experience team aims to optimise the experience of software engineering at SEEK. They design develop and support tools that allow engineers to rapidly create and support systems in compliance with SEEKs standards and guidelines including:
Interfaces for Engineering Platform: Developer Experience is responsible for providing the main interfaces through which engineers interact with SEEKs Engineering Platform including a CLI tool for interacting with our Kubernetesbased Internal Development Platform and Backstage.
Tooling for System Creation and Understanding: Developer Experience offers tools that assist engineers in creating new systems understanding existing ones and integrating various aspects of SEEKs Engineering Platform.
Guidance on HighQuality Developer Experience: Developer Experience provides guidance on what constitutes a highquality developer experience. This guidance ensures that the tools and practices used across SEEK are consistent with the companys overall approach.
Consistency Across Tools and Practices: Ensuring that the tooling and practices provided by other teams particularly within Engineering Platforms are aligned with Developer Experiences standards to maintain a cohesive experience for SEEKs engineers.
The Role
As a Staff Engineer in Developer Experience team you will:
Build and operate highly scalable and performant software in alignment with SEEKs technology strategy.
Improve platform health ensuring that our systems are reliable resilient and efficient according to SEEK development practices.
Lead coach and mentor Software Engineers to foster a culture of technical perfection.
Ensure platform health for services owned are aligned to SEEKs technical metrics goals.
Improve Agile delivery practices through collaboration with the Engineering Manager and Business Analyst.
Act as a developer advocate building relationships with other engineering teams to ensure the right problems are addressed.
Qualifications :
- Has created and maintained software in two or more modern software development languages including Golang
- Deep understanding on using Kubernetes for platform building. This may include experience in the Cloud Native space e.g. building custom operators other other developer tooling
- Experience in the Cloud Native space for example service mesh using Istio GitOps practice via ArgoCD
- Experience with the design development support and maintenance of cloud first applications preferably AWS
- Strong experience with Design Patterns
- Experience with software observabilities (logging tracing monitoring/alerting)
- Experience applying and improving continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices
- Exceptional problemsolving skills and the ability to influence and lead technical decisions within the team and across the organisation
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work optimally in an engineering platform space
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 :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
