Senior DevAx Engineer — Accelerate Developer Productivity

Salt; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt in Melbourne, Australia seeks a Senior DevAx Engineer to shape developer experience, tooling, and platforms that empower engineering teams to build software faster. You will own hands-on work across AWS, GitHub, Backstage and APIs, while guiding and mentoring engineers to adopt modern practices.

The role blends software engineering with platform stewardship, security alignment, and continuous improvement of development workflows in a large technology environment.

Qualifications

• Senior-level software engineering experience across multiple teams.
• Hands-on coder with strong Python and TypeScript skills.
• Experience with GitHub, AWS and API integrations, CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Improve tools, platforms and engineering processes to boost developer productivity.
• Own and evolve a heavily used GitHub platform.
• Work across AWS, GitHub, Backstage and API development to deliver capabilities.
• Introduce and improve new tools and capabilities across the platform.
• Develop and maintain automated solutions and tooling quality.
• Provide guidance and hands-on support to engineering teams across projects.
• Help teams adopt modern development practices and GitHub usage.
• Elevate code quality and engineering standards across teams.
• Collaborate with security, cloud and engineering stakeholders.
• Explore AI and emerging tech to enhance software development.

Skills

Senior engineer mindset

Mentoring

Problem solving

Developer productivity

Tools

GitHub

AWS

Docker

Python

TypeScript

APIs

REST/JSON/XML

CI/CD

Job description

Senior DevAx Engineer | Developer Acceleration

Are you a Senior Software Engineer who loves making developers more productive?

We’re looking for a Senior DevAx Engineer to help shape the tools, platforms and engineering practices that enable development teams to build better software, faster.

This is a highly hands-on role sitting at the intersection of software engineering, developer experience, cloud and automation. You’ll work across engineering teams to improve the platforms and tooling they use every day, while staying at the forefront of emerging technologies and modern development practices.

What you’ll be doing

• Help developers become more productive by improving tools, platforms and engineering processes
• Take ownership of and continually evolve a heavily utilised GitHub platform
• Work across AWS, GitHub, Backstage and API development
• Assess, introduce and continuously improve new tools and capabilities
• Develop and maintain high-quality, automated solutions
• Provide guidance and hands-on support to engineering teams across projects
• Help teams become more self-sufficient in GitHub and modern development practices
• Uplift code quality, engineering standards and development practices
• Work closely with Application Security, Cloud Platform and Engineering teams
• Translate security requirements into practical tooling and engineering patterns
• Explore how AI and emerging technology can improve software development
• Build APIs and integrations and automate AWS environments
• Keep the developer platform modern, reliable and continuously evolving

About you

You’ll come from a strong software engineering/development background and enjoy solving problems that make other engineers more effective.

We're looking for someone who:

• Has operated at Senior Engineer level
• Is a strong hands-on coder — this isn't an infrastructure-only role
• Has extensive experience with GitHub and AWS
• Is highly proficient in Python and TypeScript
• Has experience building APIs and integrations
• Understands CI/CD pipelines and modern engineering practices
• Has experience with AWS services including VPC, EC2, ECS, S3, Lambda, RDS and CloudFormation
• Has experience with Docker/containerisation
• Understands RESTful APIs and JSON/XML
• Can work effectively with security, cloud and engineering stakeholders
• Enjoys mentoring, guiding and sharing knowledge with other engineers
• Is naturally curious and constantly looking for better ways to do things

Why this role?

This is an opportunity to have genuine influence over how engineers build software across a large technology environment.

You'll get variety, exposure to different engineering teams and projects, and the opportunity to work on technology that directly enables other developers. You’ll be expected to enable others, but you’ll still be hands-on technically and able to see the end product of what you build.

If you're a software engineer who enjoys solving problems at scale, exploring new technology and making other engineers better, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply now or reach out for a confidential discussion.