Senior Platform Engineer - AI, Observability & Equity

Blinq; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity and ownership

Competitive salary with growth path

20 days annual leave + flexible time

Regular catered lunches

Social & wellness activities

Job summary

Blinq is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to accelerate engineering velocity across web, iOS, Android and backend services on Google Cloud. You’ll own the platforms, pipelines and tooling between ideas and shipped features, with emphasis on observability, CI/CD, and secure-by-default practices.

You’ll work closely with SRE, QA and product teams to shorten feedback loops, build internal tools, and shape AI-enabled developer workflows while ensuring security and reliability at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in platform, DevOps, SRE or infrastructure roles with impact.
• Proven CI/CD pipelines improvement, including mobile builds (iOS/Android).
• Experience with end-to-end test automation and temporary environments.
• Strong observability knowledge; Datadog experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Improve observability self-serve capabilities for engineers across stacks.
• Accelerate CI/CD and release automation for web, backend, iOS and Android.
• Build/maintain environments, seed data, and templates for quick start.
• Develop internal tools to remove toil and improve productivity.
• Collaborate with QA and product engineers to optimize workflows.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

DevOps

SRE

TypeScript

AI in dev workflow

Collaboration

Tools

Datadog

Google Cloud (GCP)

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Terraform

Job description

Blinq is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to accelerate engineering velocity across web, iOS, Android and backend services on Google Cloud. You’ll own the platforms, pipelines and tooling between ideas and shipped features, with emphasis on observability, CI/CD, and secure-by-default practices.

You’ll work closely with SRE, QA and product teams to shorten feedback loops, build internal tools, and shape AI-enabled developer workflows while ensuring security and reliability at scale.