Senior Platform Engineer

Traild Pty; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote/hybrid options

Global team across regions

Fast-growing startup environment

World-class eNPS

Job summary

Traild is seeking an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to own the cloud-native platform, from architecture through deployment and operation. You will design, implement, and scale infrastructure on GCP, manage IaC with Terraform, and operate Cloud Run and Kubernetes at production scale.

You will collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to accelerate delivery, improve developer tooling, and ensure high availability across regions while embedding security best practices and

Qualifications

• Experience with GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Cloud Run.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and microservices.
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions or ArgoCD.
• Strong observability skills with logging, metrics, and tracing.
• Proficiency in Python or Go for automation and tooling.
• Knowledge of cloud security and secure delivery practices.
• Collaborative and customer-focused mindset; Melbourne-based is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and scale infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Build and manage infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Operate Cloud Run and Kubernetes in production at scale.
• Architect cloud networking: VPCs, load balancers, firewalls, routing.
• Embed security best practices across infra and tooling.
• Design, build and maintain internal developer tooling to improve code quality and delivery speed.
• Own the CI/CD pipeline with automated testing and safe deployments.
• Improve local development parity between dev and production.
• Establish build and deployment automation best practices.
• Own observability systems: logging, metrics, tracing, alerting; reduce MTTR.

Skills

GCP

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Cloud Run

Python

Go

Security

Tools

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Job description

Traild: Who are we?

Traildis a high-growth SaaS company redefining how finance teamsoperate, combining AI, automation, and payments infrastructure to power the future of B2B finance.

Every year, businesses lose billions to fraud, errors, and mistakes.Traildexists to solve this at scale, helping finance teams move faster, stay in control, andoperatewith confidence.

With rapid customer growth, global expansion across APAC, North America and EMEA, and continued investment in product innovation, we are at a defining stage of our journey.

This is an opportunity to help shape the next category leader in finance automation,controland security, building technology that transforms how businesses manage, move, and protect money. At the core of this is a powerful AI-driven platform, enabling finance teams to deploy intelligent agents that do the work, surface risk in real time, and continuously improve how financial operations run.

Traildis building the infrastructure behind modern finance,protectingand powering meaningful volumes of the world’s B2B transactions.

Ifyou’reexcited by high growth, real ownership, and building something that matters,Traildis the place to do the most impactful work of your career.

Hear howTraildcustomers speak about us ushere.

The Role: Senior Platform Engineer

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to join our Platform team. This role sits at the intersection of infrastructure, developer experience, and reliability, with end-to-end ownership across how our platform is built, deployed, observed, and operated in production.

You’ll design and maintain Traild’s cloud-native platform, ensuring it is secure, scalable, reliable, and easy for engineers to work with. This is a highly trusted role, involved from early architectural discussions through to deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.

You’ll collaborate closely with product, application, and infrastructure teams to accelerate delivery, reduce friction, and maintain high availability across multiple cloud regions.

What You’ll Work On:

• Platform & Infrastructure

  • Design, implement, and scale infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

  • Build and manage infrastructure as code using Terraform.

  • Operate Cloud Run and Kubernetes in production at scale.

  • Architect and manage cloud networking, including VPCs, load balancers, firewalls, routing, and service meshes.

  • Embed security best practices across infrastructure, deployments, and platform tooling.

• Developer Experience & Tooling

  • Design, build, and maintain internal developer tooling that improves code quality, delivery speed, and reliability.

  • Own the CI/CD pipeline, enabling automated testing, safe deployments, and fast feedback loops.

  • Improve local development workflows and ensure strong parity between development and production environments.

  • Establish and evolve best practices for build systems, deployment automation, and platform standards.

• Observability & Reliability

  • Own observability systems, including logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting, to improve visibility and incident response.

  • Drive initiatives to reduce time-to-deploy and mean-time-to-recovery (MTTR).

  • Improve platform performance, resilience, and cost efficiency through thoughtful automation and optimisation.

What We’re Looking For:

• Strong experience with GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Cloud Run.

• Solid understanding of cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, and microservices.

• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).

• Strong background in observability (logging, monitoring, alerting).

• Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar for automation and tooling.

• Deep understanding of cloud security, identity management, and secure delivery practices.

• Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills across infrastructure, platforms, and build pipelines.

• A collaborative, customer-focused mindset with a passion for enabling others to ship faster with confidence.

• Candidates based in Melbourne are highly preferred for in‑person collaboration and brainstorming.

Nice to have:

• Experience with developer portals or internal platform tooling.

• Background in platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps.

• Experience supporting production-grade, multi-tenant SaaS platforms.

• Familiarity with secure software supply chains and build provenance.

• Experience with Linux systems.

• Exposure to ERP integrations or financial systems.

The Perks of Working atTraild

• Flexibility: we offer a range of remote, hybrid and flexible working options.

• Global team: we are growing across APAC, NA and EMEA and have team all across the world.

• We are growing at an exponentialrate,this is an opportunity to get involved with a truerocketshipwith all the excitement and opportunities that comes with it

• Our team genuinely loves working atTraild: our eNPS score is 68, where anything above 50 is considered world‑class.

Please note that the final applicants for this job will be asked to consent in writing to a police check / criminal background check to the extentpermittedby law in yourjurisdictionof employment.Please note thatTraildis an E-Verify employer.