Senior Platform Engineer

Trail'D; Warrnambool; Hybrid; AUD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote & hybrid options

Global team

Rocketship growth

High eNPS score

Job summary

Traild, a high-growth SaaS company redefining finance automation, is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own end-to-end platform design, deployment, and reliability on GCP.

You will build infrastructure as code with Terraform, run Cloud Run and Kubernetes at scale, and raise security, observability, and developer experience across the stack.

This role offers remote, hybrid options and a global team, with a fast-moving rocketship environment that values ownership and pragmatic improvements.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Skills

GCP expertise

Terraform

Kubernetes

Cloud Run

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Python

Go

Cloud security

Debugging

Tools

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Cloud Run

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Job Description

Traild is a high-growth SaaS company redefining how finance teams operate, combining AI, automation, and payments infrastructure to power the future of B2B finance.

Every year, businesses lose billions to fraud, errors, and mistakes. Traild exists to solve this at scale, helping finance teams move faster, stay in control, and operate with 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, control and 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.

Traild is building the infrastructure behind modern finance, protecting and powering meaningful volumes of the world’s B2B transactions.

If you’re excited by high growth, real ownership, and building something that matters, Traild is the place to do the most impactful work of your career.

Hear how Traild customers 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.

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 at Traild

• 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 exponential rate, this is an opportunity to get involved with a true rocketship with all the excitement and opportunities that comes with it
• Our team genuinely loves working at Traild: 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 extent permitted by law in your jurisdiction of employment. Please note that Traild is an E-Verify employer.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.