Staff Platform Engineer

iterate; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Clear pathways to senior roles

Collaborative engineering team

Focus on continuous learning

Job summary

A leading technology company in Victoria is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to redesign traffic flow on a large scale. The role emphasizes developer experience through self-service tools and automation. Candidates should have strong expertise in Kubernetes, Istio, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices. This position offers opportunities for growth towards senior technical roles and a collaborative team environment. Join a culture that prioritizes passion and continuous learning, contributing to impactful engineering solutions.

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes and Istio.
• Strong software engineering skills for tooling and automation.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, Helm, and GitOps.
• Strong engineering fundamentals and mentoring ability.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage systems that route requests across the platform.
• Create self-service tools for product teams.
• Influence technical direction and lead architectural discussions.
• Collaborate with APAC teams and security/product partners.

Skills

Kubernetes internals

Service mesh design patterns

Infrastructure-as-Code

Terraform

Helm

GitOps

Software engineering in Golang

Typescript or Python

Tools

Terraform

Helm

GitOps

CI/CD tooling

Job description

What if you could redesign how traffic flows through one of Australia's largest platforms?

Our Traffic Management team is looking for a senior platform engineer to help evolve how we move requests from the internet edge through Cloudflare, AWS, and multiple Kubernetes clusters running Istio. This isn't about keeping the lights on it's about building the next generation of our traffic infrastructure.

Architectural ownership at scale

You’ll design and run the systems that route every request across our platform. Think: edge networking, multi-region AWS infrastructure, large-scale Kubernetes clusters, and service mesh (Istio). Your decisions will directly impact how hundreds of engineers deploy and operate their services.

Build platforms, not tickets

This role is heavily focused on developer experience. You’ll create self‑service tools, sensible defaults, and automation that make it trivially easy for product teams to route, secure, and observe their traffic. Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Helm, GitOps) and CI/CD pipelines are your primary tools.

Technical leadership without the meetings

As a Staff Engineer, you’ll influence technical direction, lead architectural discussions, and mentor other engineers but you’ll still be hands‑on writing code, building tooling, and solving complex infrastructure problems. You’ll partner with Engineering Managers, Architects, Security, and Product teams across APAC.

Real impact

We help millions of people find work and build careers. The platform you build enables product teams to ship faster, more reliably, and more securely ultimately helping people connect with opportunities that change their lives.

What you’ll be working with

• Cloudflare, AWS networking, load balancers for edge‑to‑cluster traffic
• Terraform, Helm, GitOps workflows for everything‑as‑code
• Observability stacks for monitoring, logging, and tracing
• CI/CD pipelines that enable safe, fast deployments
• Software Engineering INGolang, Typescript OR Python

What’s in it for you?

• Team: Work with our Head of Engineering, Platforms and a collaborative, high‑performing engineering team
• Growth: Clear pathways into Senior Staff Engineer, Engineering Manager, or Software Architect roles
• Culture: We value passion, teamwork, delivery, and long‑term thinking. We celebrate diversity and foster psychological safety, continuous learning, and technical excellence.

Who thrives in this role?

People who love building platforms that other engineers love using. Engineers who get excited about Kubernetes internals, service mesh design patterns, and Infrastructure‑as‑Code. Technical leaders who care as much about developer experience as they do about system reliability.

Specific experience that's valuable: deep Kubernetes and Istio knowledge, strong software engineering skills for tooling/automation, hands‑on Terraform/Helm/GitOps experience, and proven technical leadership across teams. Bonus points for contributions to CNCF projects, multi‑tenant cluster experience, or CKA certification.