We believe senior engineers do their best work when given real technical autonomy, deep ownership over system architecture, and space to focus on the craft of software engineering. In this role, you will work in tight lockstep with a dedicated Tech Lead and Engineering Manager, driving high-impact backend services and shaping our next-generation conversational platform. You'll be surrounded by collaborative, high-performing peers, solve complex distributed systems challenges at scale, and directly influence how enterprise customers interact with AI, all within a high-trust, flexible environment that balances rapid product delivery with sound architectural rigor.This is a permanent position open to anyone living on the east coast of Australia. We operate on a flexible, hybrid model, meaning you can balance working from home and collaborating with the team in a way that actually works for you.
Responsibilities
What the Work Looks Like Day-to-Day
Take ownership of core services within the Discovery team, ensuring our conversational search and content intelligence pipelines are scalable, highly available, and structurally sound
Design and implement resilient, decoupled distributed systems using event-driven architectures, maintaining clean API boundaries and robust fault tolerance
Embed DevSecOps practices within the team, integrating automated security scanning, vulnerability management, and strict IAM principles into everything we build
Maintain and optimize CI/CD pipelines, driving automated testing, reliable deployment strategies (like blue-green or canary releases), and infrastructure reproducibility
Participate in FinOps practices for our domain, monitoring and optimizing AWS infrastructure spend across compute (ECS/Fargate/Lambda), storage (S3), search indexes, and LLM usage
Contribute to Generative AI and RAG architectures, helping evaluate and integrate tools like AWS Bedrock safely, cost-effectively, and pragmatically
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