Senior Backend Engineer, AI-Driven Cloud Platform

Squiz; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Squiz, a cloud-based Digital Experience Platform, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its Discovery domain to build scalable, secure cloud systems enabling conversational search and content intelligence. You will work with a Tech Lead and Engineering Manager, own core services, design distributed systems, and apply DevSecOps and FinOps practices in AWS.

The role is hybrid, with flexible work arrangements on the east coast of Australia.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and maintaining distributed systems in production.
• Deep AWS cloud-native experience with serverless and containers.
• IaC using AWS CDK or Terraform and strong DevSecOps practices.
• Robust caching, DB optimization, and web performance tuning.
• Experience with Generative AI workflows (RAG) and AWS Bedrock.
• Ability to design scalable, secure, cost-aware cloud architectures.

Responsibilities

• Own core Discovery backend services ensuring scalability and availability.
• Design decoupled distributed systems with event-driven patterns.
• Embed DevSecOps practices including automated security scans.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated testing with reliable deployments.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into system boundaries.
• Mentor peers and perform code reviews.
• Work hands-on with Node.js/TypeScript on AWS.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

AWS

DevSecOps

Distributed systems design

Agile methodologies

System architecture

Tools

AWS CDK

Terraform

OpenSearch/Elasticsearch

Dynatrace/DataDog

CloudWatch

Job description

Squiz, a cloud-based Digital Experience Platform, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its Discovery domain to build scalable, secure cloud systems enabling conversational search and content intelligence. You will work with a Tech Lead and Engineering Manager, own core services, design distributed systems, and apply DevSecOps and FinOps practices in AWS.

The role is hybrid, with flexible work arrangements on the east coast of Australia.