Senior Platform Engineer - Remote (Australia)

Midnite Limited; Australia; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Fully supported home office setup.

Job summary

Midnite is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to evolve backend and platform systems as we scale across markets. This senior IC role focuses on reliability, scalability, and well-defined boundaries across services.

You will drive design and delivery of multi-region readiness, observability, and deployment practices while collaborating with product engineering teams across time zones. Flexible remote role in Australia with a home office setup and strong ownership are expected.

Qualifications

• Senior-level backend or platform engineering experience.
• Experience delivering complex technical projects independently.
• Strong backend capability in Python or a language such as Go, Rust, Java, or Scala.
• Comfortable learning new languages and systems quickly.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, and architecture trade-offs.
• Experience with microservices, service boundaries, eventual consistency, data separation, or reliability engineering.
• Comfortable working across app-layer systems and platform/infrastructure concerns.
• Strong communication across time zones and high ownership.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and improve backend and platform systems that support Midnite’s core product.
• Work on complex platform problems across scalability, reliability, service isolation, and regional readiness.
• Help define clean boundaries and interfaces across existing services and data flows.
• Contribute to systems that support multi-region and future market expansion.
• Improve observability, deployment practices, performance, and operational maturity.
• Work across app-layer systems and platform foundations, with team support for deeper infrastructure areas.
• Contribute production code, reviews, and technical design as part of day‑to‑day delivery.
• Help identify failure points, reduce risk, and make the platform more resilient as usage grows.

Skills

Senior backend

Python

Go

Rust

Java

Scala

Distributed systems

Microservices

Cross-timezone collaboration

Tools

Go

Job description

Midnite is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to evolve backend and platform systems as we scale across markets. This senior IC role focuses on reliability, scalability, and well-defined boundaries across services.

You will drive design and delivery of multi-region readiness, observability, and deployment practices while collaborating with product engineering teams across time zones. Flexible remote role in Australia with a home office setup and strong ownership are expected.