Staff Engineer - Developer Experience (Hybrid Working)

The Team 
The Developer Experience team at SEEK is dedicated to revolutionising the software engineering journey. Operating within SEEK's Engineering Platforms, our team is a cross-functional, multi-disciplinary team that work within APAC matrix organisational structure.  

The team is responsible for developer experience part of Automat, SEEK’s internal developer platform, based on Cloud Native ecosystem on Kubernetes. The team is also responsible other developer systems such as Backstage and other internal tools for managing containerised workloads

About the role
Join our dynamic team at SEEK Group as a Staff Engineer and be a key player in shaping the future of our engineering initiatives. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to make a significant impact by developing cutting-edge software solutions within our product delivery, systems, and platform teams. Your expertise will be instrumental in enhancing engineering quality, mentoring fellow Software Engineers, and delivering user-centric, reliable, and scalable solutions.

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you’ll have the autonomy to lead the development of Automat, SEEK’s innovative internal developer platform, on Kubernetes. In addition to guiding your own team, you will collaborate with other technical leaders and teams within the Engineering Platform domain to shape the technical roadmap for Automat, specifically focusing on developer experience concerns. You will also play a vital role as a developer advocate within SEEK’s engineering community to help adoption of project Automat.

If you're passionate about driving innovation and thrive in a collaborative environment, we invite you to join us in revolutionizing the way we build and deliver software at SEEK Group. Apply now to embark on an exciting journey of growth and impact!

This role for Staff Software Engineer could include the following:

• Build and operate highly scalable and performant software in alignment with SEEK’s technology strategy.
• Improve platform health, ensuring that our systems are, reliable, resilient, and efficient according to SEEK development practices.
• Coach and mentor Software Engineers. Lead, coach, and mentor Software Engineers to foster a culture of technical excellence.
• Ensure platform health for services owned are aligned to SEEK’s 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.

You will work with various roles, including Software Engineers at multiple levels such as Staff Engineer, Engineering Manager, Business Analyst / Iteration Manager, and Platform Engineers

Qualifications 

• Has created and maintained software in two or more modern software development languages. 
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes as an Application Developer. More experience in the Cloud Native space is desired (e.g.: service mesh architecture on 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 problem-solving 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 effectively in an engineering platform space.

Perks and benefits 
At SEEK we offer: 

• Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role. 
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year 
• Casual dress – every day 

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 don't 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 with 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