Staff Engineer

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SEEK operates market-leading online employment marketplaces, including Jobstreet and Jobsdb in Asia. SEEK has been helping people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and helping organisations succeed for over 25 years.

Founded and headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, SEEK has grown into a multinational technology company with over 3,300 employees and is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.

SEEK’s presence spans Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Additionally, SEEK has minority investments in employment marketplaces in China, South Korea and Bangladesh.

SEEK develops and applies innovative data and technology tools to facilitate high-quality matching and improve reliability of marketplace information.

In 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, SEEK was recognised as one of Australia’s Top Ten Places to Work in Technology in the AFR BOSS Best Places to Work awards. SEEK was also named a 5-Star Employer of Choice by HRD Asia in 2024 and won four accolades at TalentCorp’s Life at Work Awards 2023 in Malaysia.

Job Description

About the role

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

Collaborating with the Engineering Manager, you’ll have the autonomy to own 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 craft 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.
• 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.

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

Qualifications

• Has created and maintained software in two or more modern software development languages, preferably Typescript or Golang.
• Deep understanding on using Kubernetes for platform building. This may include 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

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 for other developer systems such as Backstage and other internal tools for managing containerised workloads.

Why SEEK

• Extensive employee benefits
• Collaborative and mature working culture
• Hybrid working mode

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.

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