Staff Engineer - Platforms

Company Description

About SEEK

SEEK’s portfolio of diverse businesses make a positive impact on a truly global scale. Our purpose is to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organisations succeed. We create world-class technology solutions to connect more people to relevant employment, education, small business and volunteer opportunities. We have a culture of high-performance in our workplaces and celebrate the diversity of our employees who contribute to the success of our organisation.

Life at SEEK

SEEK’s purpose is at the centre of everything we do. Our SEEK, which defines the way we work, is all about what makes us unique and a little bit different. Passion, Team, Delivery and Future are our principles that drive innovation and creativity. SEEK strives to support employee wellbeing by providing an amazing experience at work which led us to being named AFR BOSS Top 10 Best Places to work in technology for the fourth year in a row. We are proud to work in an environment that's inclusive where everyone's unique ideas, experiences and perspectives are valued.

Our award-winning head office in Cremorne (just a 4 min walk from Richmond station) provides an exceptional space to collaborate with colleagues. The building provides sweeping views of the city, a games area, sit and stand desks at every workstation, modern end-of-trip facilities and Thursday night drinks which gives our people an opportunity to connect in a social setting.

Job Description

The Team

Part of SEEK’s 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 SEEK’s standards and guidelines, including: 

Interfaces for Engineering Platform: Developer Experience is responsible for providing the main interfaces through which engineers interact with SEEK’s Engineering Platform, including a CLI tool for interacting with our Kubernetes-based 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 SEEK’s Engineering Platform. 

Guidance on High-Quality Developer Experience: Developer Experience provides guidance on what constitutes a high-quality developer experience. This guidance ensures that the tools and practices used across SEEK are consistent with the company’s 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 Experience’s standards to maintain a cohesive experience for SEEK’s engineers. 

The Role 

As a Staff Engineer in Developer Experience team you will: 

• 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. 

• Lead, coach, and mentor Software Engineers to foster a culture of technical perfection. 

• 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. 

Additional Information:

We are building an Internal Developer Platform on top of Kubernetes. Central to developer experience of this platform is a CLI tool written in Typescript.

Key technologies for the platform include AWS EKS, Istio, Argo CD, Buildkite, Pagerduty and Datadog.We’re looking for someone with a strong conceptual understanding of Kubernetes, someone who has built on top of Kubernetes through operators and controllers or developer tooling.

he candidate would be joining a small team building out the essential developer experience for SEEK’s Internal Developer Platform. They must be able to contribute to this team both to the technical design and directly to the implementation.

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 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 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 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 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.