Platform Engineer – AI Infrastructure & Distributed Systems

Capital Executive Search; Sydney; On-site; AUD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital Executive Search is assisting a leading AI infrastructure business in Sydney to scale a Platform Engineering function. You will own end-to-end design and delivery of software components, build distributed systems, and stay hands-on with coding and reviews.

You will guide small engineering teams, oversee production lifecycles, and collaborate with product/ops to translate requirements into scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in AI infrastructure/data centers or hyperscalers
• Proficiency in Python, Go, TS, Java, C#, or Rust
• Experience designing software components and owning technical decisions
• Experience building and operating distributed systems in production
• Strong data structures, algorithms, concurrency and system design
• Experience owning production services including monitoring, on-call and incident response
• Experience leading a small group of engineers through delivery and design coordination
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience across data engineering, automation, developer tooling, AI/ML, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Terraform and telemetry would be highly regarded

Responsibilities

• Own the design and delivery of software components end to end, including interfaces, data models and storage
• Design and build distributed systems that remain reliable under load, including handling partial failure, backpressure and recovery
• Remain hands‑on with coding, code reviews and technical design
• Lead small groups of engineers through delivery, breaking down work and sequencing priorities
• Own the full production lifecycle of what you build, including testing, deployment, monitoring, on‑call and incident follow‑up
• Work with product, engineering and operations teams to turn loosely defined requirements into scalable solutions
• Contribute to CI/CD, observability and developer experience

Skills

Python

Go

TypeScript

Java

C#

Rust

Distributed systems

Production operations

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Telemetry

Job description

Capital Executive Search is assisting a leading AI infrastructure business in Sydney to scale a Platform Engineering function. You will own end-to-end design and delivery of software components, build distributed systems, and stay hands-on with coding and reviews.

You will guide small engineering teams, oversee production lifecycles, and collaborate with product/ops to translate requirements into scalable solutions.