Platform Engineering Lead - AI-Powered DX & Scalable Infra

GRIDSIGHT; Randwick City Council; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first work

Competitive salary and equity

Head office in Sydney

Job summary

Gridsight is a rapidly growing Grid/CleanTech startup building a vertical SaaS platform for electricity utilities to modernise grid operations. We are hiring a Staff Platform Engineer to establish foundations that let every product squad ship faster and with greater confidence.

You will work across the engineering organisation to solve cross-cutting problems like observability and deployment pipelines. We are building an engineering culture with AI-assisted development tooling.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering with Staff level in platform, infra, or SRE domains.
• Production-scale cloud infrastructure experience with IaC and container orchestration (AWS and Terraform preferred).
• Proven track record building and operating observability platforms at meaningful scale.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: clean architecture, testing, version control, code review.
• A track record of defining systems and practices, not just working within them.
• Demonstrated experience as an enabling function within a product engineering organisation.
• Fluency in AI-assisted development tooling — agentic coding tools / LLM workflows.

Responsibilities

• Identify and solve cross-cutting platform problems to speed product squads.
• Build and operate observability platforms—metrics, tracing, logging, alerting for clear visibility into system health.
• Evolve deployment automation, release management, and infrastructure-as-code; tackle environment management and test infra to reduce lead time.
• Architect secure, cost-effective, scalable multi-tenant, multi-region infrastructure; address tech debt proactively.
• Bring platform engineering standards into the data layer (dbt, Databricks): CI/CD, automated testing, environment promotion, observability.
• Mentor engineers across squads and promote reliability and developer experience as a culture carrier.
• Treat internal developers as customers: gather feedback, measure satisfaction, iterate on tooling.

Skills

Platform engineering

SRE

Cloud infrastructure

Observability

Terraform

AWS

Code quality

DX focus

AI-assisted tooling

Tools

Databricks

dbt

Spark

Kubernetes

Job description

Gridsight is a rapidly growing Grid/CleanTech startup building a vertical SaaS platform for electricity utilities to modernise grid operations. We are hiring a Staff Platform Engineer to establish foundations that let every product squad ship faster and with greater confidence.

You will work across the engineering organisation to solve cross-cutting problems like observability and deployment pipelines. We are building an engineering culture with AI-assisted development tooling.