Senior Platform Engineer

Traild; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote or hybrid options

Global team across APAC/NA/EMEA

Strong ownership culture

Job summary

Traild is seeking an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to join our Platform team. You will own the design, deployment, and operation of our cloud-native platform across multiple regions, ensuring security, scalability and reliability for engineers building the next generation of finance automation.

You’ll collaborate with product, application and infrastructure teams, shaping architecture from early discussions to production, with a focus on developer experience, observability, and fast, safe

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms.
• Strong skills in GCP, containers, and microservices.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).
• Deep understanding of observability, logging, monitoring and security.
• Excellent debugging and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, deployment, and operation of Traild's cloud-native platform.
• Improve developer experience and tooling to speed up delivery.
• Ensure reliability, observability, and security across regions.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines experience

Observability and monitoring

Debugging and problem-solving

Collaborative mindset

Python or Go programming

Tools

GCP

Terraform

Kubernetes

Cloud Run

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Linux

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 here.

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

• Developer Experience & Tooling

• Observability & Reliability

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 78, 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.