Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Macquarie Group; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing leave day

Service bonus leave days

Parental leave up to 20 weeks

Volunteer leave & donation matching

Gender affirmation leave

EAP & wellbeing benefits

Learning & development opportunities

Hybrid and flexible working

WFH equipment reimbursement

Job summary

Macquarie is seeking a Senior Reliability Engineer to shape the team’s technical direction and raise reliability across engineering. You will design scalable, resilient systems and tooling in Go or Java, and implement SLIs/SLOs while instrumenting services with traces, metrics and logs.

You will mentor engineers through code reviews, advocate for system improvements, and explore AI-enabled tooling to reduce operational toil and improve reliability.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of modern software development practices.
• Hands-on development in Go or Java with instrumentation expertise.
• Experience with AWS and/or GCP, Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines.
• Defined and implemented SLIs/SLOs end-to-end with dashboards and burn-rate alerts.
• Led incident response and post-incident reviews; influence without authority.
• Experience building AI-enabled tooling (LLMs/agents) and applying guardrails.

Responsibilities

• Shape the team's technical direction for reliability.
• Design and build scalable, resilient, and secure systems and tooling.
• Define/implement SLIs and SLOs; instrument services with traces, metrics, logs.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews and guidance; collaborate cross-functionally.

Skills

Software design & architecture

Go/Java development

Observability instrumentation

SLIs & SLOs

Incident response

AI-enabled tooling

Tools

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Our Reliability Services team owns the practices around how we observe, measure and recover the platforms our business depends on. As a Digital Bank, Reliability is a core at what we do and set the bar for engineering and build the tooling that helps teams ship reliable software with confidence.

We are a global financial services group operating in 30 markets with 57 years of unbroken profitability. At Macquarie, you’re empowered to shape a career that is fulfilling and creates value. You will bring your insights and expertise to the task at hand and feel supported as you make your own kind of impact for a better future.

What role will you play?

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As a Senior Reliability Engineer, you will help shape the team's technical direction in line with organisational strategy, and raise the standard of reliability across engineering. You will design and build scalable, resilient and secure systems and tooling, applying engineering best practices and coding standards in Go or Java. You will define and implement SLIs and SLOs, and lead the way on instrumenting services with traces, metrics and logs. You will mentor and coach engineers through code reviews, guidance and hands-on collaboration, advocate for system and process improvements, and apply new technologies, especially AI, to improve reliability and reduce operational toil.
You will work with engineers and stakeholders to turn business needs into reliable technical solutions, and to influence decisions that affect system reliability, security and compliance.

What you offer

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• Deep understanding of software design, architecture and modern software development practices
• Hands-on development in Go or Java, with deep understanding of application instrumentation for traces, metrics and logs, and the ability to guide engineers on instrumenting services well.
• Production experience with AWS and/or GCP, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
• A track record of defining SLIs and SLOs and implementing them end to end, from measuring to building SLO dashboards, error budgets and burn-rate alerting that is actionable.
• Experience leading incident response and post-incident reviews, and influencing teams and stakeholders without relying on authority.
• Hands-on experience building AI-enabled tools, such as LLM or agent-based workflows, with sound judgement about where AI helps and where it needs guardrails.

What we offer

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At Macquarie, you’re empowered to shape a career that’s rewarding in all the ways that matter most to you. Macquarie employees can access a wide range of benefits which, depending on employment type, include:

• 1 wellbeing leave day per year
• Up to 5 additional service bonus leave days per year
• Up to 20 weeks’ paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of transition leave upon return to work, and 6 weeks’ paid leave for non-primary caregivers
• 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching
• Up to 12 months’ gender affirmation leave, including 6 weeks’ paid leave
• Access to Employee Assistance Program and wellbeing benefits including skin and health checks, and flu vaccinations
• Access to a wide range of salary packaging options
• Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role
• Reimbursement for work from home equipment

About Banking and Financial Services

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Banking and Financial Services is our technology-driven retail bank. You will be part of a team that supports clients to achieve their full potential - whether that’s buying a home, growing a business or investing to manage wealth.

Inclusion at Macquarie

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We are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all, where different experiences, skills and perspectives are valued and respected. Macquarie provides access to opportunities for all individuals regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, marital status, gender identity or any other characteristic or circumstance.

We provide reasonable adjustments to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and employment. If you require an adjustment, please let us know during the application process.