Staff Infrastructure Platform Engineer: Obs, CI/CD & Cloud

Gridsight; Australia; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Gridsight, an Australia-based grid analytics software company, is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Infrastructure Platform team. You’ll own end-to-end platform problems, influence technical direction, and work with product teams to deliver secure, observable infrastructure.

This is a hands-on role focused on building scalable cloud infrastructure, IAM, CI/CD, and observability, with a product mindset and a strong emphasis on reliability and developer experience.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building and operating cloud infrastructure at scale.
• Proven ability to run observability platforms used by multiple teams.
• Strong SRE practices including incident response and runbooks.
• Experience treating the platform as a product with internal customers.
• Experience on platform teams in product engineering orgs.

Responsibilities

• Own observability platform and dashboards across teams.
• Consolidate deployment pipelines and infrastructure-as-code with faster CI feedback.
• Design secure, multi-region infrastructure for Australia, NZ, and the US.
• Define SLOs and error budgets; lead on-call incidents.
• Improve developer experience with tools and abstractions.
• Leverage AI-assisted tooling to accelerate delivery.
• Mentor engineers and shape platform roadmap and governance.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Observability platforms

SRE practices

Platform engineering

Infrastructure as code

AI-assisted development

Multi-tenant SaaS

Tools

AWS

Terraform

ECS

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Gridsight, an Australia-based grid analytics software company, is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Infrastructure Platform team. You’ll own end-to-end platform problems, influence technical direction, and work with product teams to deliver secure, observable infrastructure.

This is a hands-on role focused on building scalable cloud infrastructure, IAM, CI/CD, and observability, with a product mindset and a strong emphasis on reliability and developer experience.