Staff Engineer

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 (2021-2024). 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.

The Team

Ad Products & Add-Ons helps hirers choose and use products that improve customer experience, value, and sustainable business growth. The team owns the APIs, UI widgets, business logic, and product catalogue capabilities that power these experiences, along with products designed to increase hirer value, reach, and yield. 

The team sits at the intersection of product experience and monetisation, creating flexible ways for hirers to discover, select, and use add-ons and related products. Its work helps make purchasing simpler and more relevant for customers, while supporting SEEK’s broader goal of growing sustainable revenue through better product mix and stronger budget utilisation. 

You will work with software engineers, staff and senior staff engineers, engineering managers, product managers, designers, data engineers, business analysts, architects, security, AI, platform and other engineering teams across SEEK. You’ll be expected to influence without relying on hierarchy, create clarity across team boundaries, and make dependencies, risks, ownership and technical decisions visible. 

The Role

A Staff Engineer is a senior technical leader and in-team technical specialist within SEEK Engineering. You will own the technical direction of the team and the systems it builds and operates, while influencing adjacent teams and the wider Hirer Monetisation and Insights sub-domain. 

You will design and build fit-for-purpose products, platforms and services; strengthen system health; and help create the engineering practices that allow people and AI-enabled tools to deliver safely and effectively. You will connect technical decisions to customer and commercial outcomes, lead through ambiguity, and make the trade-offs required to keep delivery sustainable over time. 

A modern Staff Engineer at SEEK works across domains, is not overly stack-focused, and uses sound judgement to balance delivery, quality, security and maintainability. They are deeply curious, continuously learning, and willing to experiment with new technologies and ways of working. They use AI and emerging tools responsibly to improve engineering practice, while applying strong judgement and establishing practical guardrails for safe use. 

You’ll also be a hands-on technical leader in the team’s day-to-day work, helping shape architecture, guide delivery, support production incidents, improve engineering practices, and make repositories and workflows more AI-ready. AI is changing how software is built and how SEEK creates customer value, so you will be expected to use AI coding tools as part of your normal engineering practice and to help the team establish repeatable, measurable and safe workflows. You will also contribute hands-on technical leadership to production LLM and agent capabilities where they are relevant to HMI products and systems. 

Key Accountabilities

• Own the technical direction, architecture and evolution of the team’s services, systems and platforms.

• Set and maintain a pragmatic roadmap balancing customer value, reliability, security, resilience, observability, cost, performance and technical debt.

• Lead design, development, testing, deployment and operation of scalable software and APIs.

• Act as a technical escalation point for complex production issues, driving learning, remediation and prevention.

• Improve developer experience and delivery flow through strong CI/CD, testing, observability, documentation and operational practices.

• Use endorsed AI coding tools responsibly across the delivery lifecycle, and help make the team’s repositories, workflows and practices more AI-ready.

• Lead by example in adopting AI for engineering, sharing learnings and lifting capability across the wider engineering group.

• Extensive experience designing, building and operating production software systems, APIs or platforms in a cloud environment.

• Staff-level technical leadership with ownership of architecture, roadmap and platform evolution.

• Hands-on experience with AI coding tools and agentic workflows, plus a track record of improving engineering productivity and quality through AI-enabled practices.

• Production experience with LLM-powered applications, agents or workflows, including good judgement around guardrails, quality standards and human oversight.

• Strong architectural judgement across secure coding, CI/CD, testing, observability, incident response and resilience.

• Proven ability to influence across multiple teams, communicate clearly, and coach others effectively.

• A strong learning mindset, with curiosity for new technologies and a habit of sharing practical learnings with the wider engineering group.

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.

At SEEK, we may use AI tools to support parts of the hiring process, including reviewing applications or assessing responses. These tools are designed to assist our hiring teams, not replace human judgment. All hiring decisions are made by people. If you’d like more information about how your information is managed during recruitment, please contact the Talent Acquisition Team.

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