Senior SRE: AI-Powered Global Reliability & Automation

Blinq; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Growth path

Annual leave 20 days

Team events

Catered lunches

Snack bar

Job summary

Blinq in Sydney, Australia is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, build and operate the scalable platform powering millions of first interactions. You will partner with platform, backend and product engineers to improve reliability and automate operations.

You will shape AI-powered workflows to reduce toil, strengthen incident response and enhance developer productivity, while engaging in cross-functional initiatives and upholding best practices for security and performance.

Qualifications

• 5 - 7 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure and operating production systems at scale.
• Experience designing high-availability, fault-tolerant architectures.
• Strong experience with monitoring, observability, logging and incident management.
• Strong experience building CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation and containerised workloads.
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP preferred).
• AI fluency - you actively use AI tools to automate workflows and improve productivity.
• Collaborative mindset with a passion for mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar.
• Strong ownership and relentless drive to improve systems and processes.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate highly reliable infrastructure that scales with global growth
• Define and own SLOs, SLAs and error budgets, partnering with engineering teams to improve platform reliability
• Evolve observability, incident response and on-call practices to minimise downtime and improve operational excellence
• Own and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows and developer experience
• Identify reliability bottlenecks and proactively eliminate manual operational work through automation and AI
• Build internal tooling and AI-powered workflows that help engineers move faster while maintaining reliability and security
• Lead cross-functional initiatives spanning platform, infrastructure and product engineering
• Champion engineering best practices across reliability, scalability, security and performance

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

High availability

Observability

CI/CD pipelines

Automation

AI fluency

Collaboration

Mentoring

Production systems

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Claude Code

Cursor

GCP

Job description

Blinq in Sydney, Australia is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, build and operate the scalable platform powering millions of first interactions. You will partner with platform, backend and product engineers to improve reliability and automate operations.

You will shape AI-powered workflows to reduce toil, strengthen incident response and enhance developer productivity, while engaging in cross-functional initiatives and upholding best practices for security and performance.