Senior Backend Engineer, AI-Driven Cloud Platform

Squiz

City of Melbourne

Hybrid

AUD 150,000 - 190,000

Full time

14 days+
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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.

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