Senior Platform Engineer: AI-Driven, Scalable Infra

Preacta Recruitment; Sydney; On-site; AUD 122,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Preacta Recruitment is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a high-impact platform engineering team in Sydney. You will design and build cloud-native backend services, owned end-to-end from design to production monitoring.

The role emphasizes scalable microservices, event-driven architectures, and high throughput systems across AWS and Kubernetes. Work on AI-enabled tooling initiatives that pair with a 3-year platform roadmap; collaborate with senior engineers and product teams to raise

Qualifications

• Strong Java and Spring Boot with microservices focus.
• Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka or similar).
• Cloud-native experience with AWS and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Own services end-to-end from design to production monitoring and incident response.
• Design reusable platform capabilities with senior engineers.
• Modernise legacy services and drive engineering quality.
• Collaborate with product teams to accelerate delivery across the organisation.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

Distributed systems

Kafka

AWS

Kubernetes

Event-driven

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Preacta Recruitment is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a high-impact platform engineering team in Sydney. You will design and build cloud-native backend services, owned end-to-end from design to production monitoring.

The role emphasizes scalable microservices, event-driven architectures, and high throughput systems across AWS and Kubernetes. Work on AI-enabled tooling initiatives that pair with a 3-year platform roadmap; collaborate with senior engineers and product teams to raise