Senior DevAx Engineer – Developer Acceleration

Salt; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt Melbourne is seeking a Senior DevAx Engineer to improve developer tools and platforms across a large technology environment, focusing on developer acceleration.

You will work hands-on with GitHub, AWS, Python, TypeScript, and modern development practices to uplift productivity and code quality. This role blends hands-on engineering with platform improvements for cross-team impact.

Qualifications

• Senior Software Engineer with a focus on developer experience.
• Strong coding skills and passion for automation.
• Experience with GitHub and AWS.

Responsibilities

• Improve developer productivity with tools, platforms and processes.
• Evolve and maintain a heavily used GitHub platform.
• Develop automation across AWS.
• Introduce new tools and capabilities.
• Provide hands-on guidance to engineering teams.
• Promote engineering best practices and quality.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

GitHub workflows

AWS

APIs

CI/CD

Docker

Tools

GitHub

Docker

CloudFormation

REST APIs

Job description

Melbourne | Full-time Help make software developers faster, more effective and better equipped to build great products.

We’re looking for a Senior DevAx Engineer to improve the tools, platforms and engineering practices used by development teams across a large technology environment.

This is a hands‑on software engineering role focused on Developer Acceleration, with strong exposure to GitHub, AWS, Python, TypeScript and modern development practices.

The role

You’ll help shape and continuously improve the developer platform, working closely with engineering teams to make their day‑to‑day development experience better.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Improving developer productivity through better tools, platforms and processes
• Evolving and maintaining a heavily utilised GitHub platform
• Developing automation and tooling across AWS
• Assessing and introducing new tools, technologies and capabilities
• Providing technical guidance and hands‑on assistance to engineering teams
• Helping teams adopt engineering best practices and become more self‑sufficient
• Uplifting code quality and development standards
• Working closely with Application Security, Cloud Platform and Engineering teams
• Building APIs, integrations and automated solutions
• Exploring how AI and emerging technologies can improve software development
• Keeping the developer platform modern, scalable and continuously evolving

About you

You’ll be a Senior Software Engineer / Developer with strong coding skills and a genuine interest in developer productivity and engineering excellence.

You’ll ideally have:

• Strong professional experience with GitHub and AWS
• Excellent Python and TypeScript skills
• A strong backend/software development background
• Experience building APIs and integrations
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern development practices
• Strong AWS experience across services such as EC2, ECS, S3, Lambda, RDS, VPC and CloudFormation
• Experience with Docker/containerisation
• Understanding of RESTful APIs, JSON and XML
• Strong stakeholder communication skills
• A passion for learning, experimenting with new technology and sharing knowledge with others

Why this role?

This is a great opportunity to work on technology that enables engineering teams across the organisation.

You’ll get exposure to a wide variety of projects and technologies, working with teams across the organisation while remaining hands‑on technically.

Your work will directly influence how developers build, deploy and improve software.

If you’re a strong software engineer who enjoys developer experience, automation, cloud technology and finding better ways to help engineers work, we’d love to hear from you.

At Salt, our mission is Creating Futures by putting our clients, candidates, partners, and team members at the heart of everything we do. We extend our sincere appreciation to everyone who has contributed to our continued success.

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