Senior Cloud Platform Engineer – AI-Driven Marketing

Dentsu X; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office stipend

Volunteer leave

Wellness days off

Dentsu University access

All-company event: One Day for Change

Job summary

Dentsu X is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Cloud and Platforms Engineering team on a hybrid programme in Melbourne or Sydney. You will own the design and delivery of cloud-native applications, defining patterns and standards that scale and perform in production.

The role requires mentoring engineers, driving reliability, security, and cost optimisation while collaborating with data science and business teams to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading the delivery of significant software, platform or cloud engineering initiatives.
• Strong architecture and systems design capability, with deep expertise in at least one major cloud platform.
• Experience mentoring engineers, influencing technical direction and driving engineering best practices.
• Ability to balance hands-on software development with broader ownership of technical outcomes and platform strategy.
• Proven track record delivering scalable, production-grade products that solve real business problems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of cloud native applications, products and services from concept through to production.
• Define engineering standards, architecture patterns and technical approaches that support scalability, reliability and performance.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across projects, helping teams solve complex engineering challenges.
• Drive platform reliability, observability, security and cloud optimisation initiatives across the engineering environment.
• Partner with stakeholders across engineering, data science and the broader business to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Mentoring

Platform strategy

Job description

Dentsu X is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Cloud and Platforms Engineering team on a hybrid programme in Melbourne or Sydney. You will own the design and delivery of cloud-native applications, defining patterns and standards that scale and perform in production.

The role requires mentoring engineers, driving reliability, security, and cost optimisation while collaborating with data science and business teams to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions.