Senior DevEx Engineer - Platform & Tools

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

Job summary

Salt is seeking a Senior DevAx Engineer to shape tools, platforms and engineering practices that enable development teams to build better software, faster. This hands-on role sits at the intersection of software engineering, developer experience, cloud and automation.

You will own a heavily used GitHub platform, work across AWS, Backstage and API development, and continuously improve tooling. The role emphasizes mentorship, collaboration with security and cloud teams, and keeping the developer

Qualifications

• Senior Engineer with hands-on development background.
• Extensive GitHub and AWS experience is required.
• Proficient in Python and TypeScript.
• Experience building APIs and integrations.
• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and modern practices.
• Experience with AWS services: VPC, EC2, ECS, S3, Lambda, RDS, CloudFormation.
• Experience with Docker/containerisation.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs and JSON/XML.
• Strong collaboration with security, cloud and engineering teams.
• Mentoring or guiding other engineers and sharing knowledge.
• Curious and constantly seeking better ways to do things.

Responsibilities

• Improve developer productivity by enhancing tools and processes
• Own and evolve a heavily used GitHub platform
• Work across AWS, GitHub, Backstage and API development
• Introduce and improve new tools and capabilities
• Develop and maintain automated solutions
• Provide hands-on guidance to engineering teams
• Help teams become more self-sufficient in GitHub and modern practices
• Raise code quality and engineering standards
• Collaborate with Security, Cloud Platform and Engineering teams
• Translate security requirements into tooling patterns
• Explore AI and emerging tech to improve software development
• Build APIs and integrations and automate AWS environments
• Keep the developer platform modern and reliable

Skills

GitHub expertise

AWS experience

Python

TypeScript

APIs & integrations

CI/CD practices

Security collaboration

Mentoring

Tools

GitHub

AWS

Docker

Backstage

REST APIs

Job description

Salt is seeking a Senior DevAx Engineer to shape tools, platforms and engineering practices that enable development teams to build better software, faster. This hands-on role sits at the intersection of software engineering, developer experience, cloud and automation.

You will own a heavily used GitHub platform, work across AWS, Backstage and API development, and continuously improve tooling. The role emphasizes mentorship, collaboration with security and cloud teams, and keeping the developer