Staff Platform Engineer

GRIDSIGHT; Randwick City Council; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first work

Competitive salary and equity

Head office in Sydney

Job summary

Gridsight is a rapidly growing Grid/CleanTech startup building a vertical SaaS platform for electricity utilities to modernise grid operations. We are hiring a Staff Platform Engineer to establish foundations that let every product squad ship faster and with greater confidence.

You will work across the engineering organisation to solve cross-cutting problems like observability and deployment pipelines. We are building an engineering culture with AI-assisted development tooling.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering with Staff level in platform, infra, or SRE domains.
• Production-scale cloud infrastructure experience with IaC and container orchestration (AWS and Terraform preferred).
• Proven track record building and operating observability platforms at meaningful scale.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: clean architecture, testing, version control, code review.
• A track record of defining systems and practices, not just working within them.
• Demonstrated experience as an enabling function within a product engineering organisation.
• Fluency in AI-assisted development tooling — agentic coding tools / LLM workflows.

Responsibilities

• Identify and solve cross-cutting platform problems to speed product squads.
• Build and operate observability platforms—metrics, tracing, logging, alerting for clear visibility into system health.
• Evolve deployment automation, release management, and infrastructure-as-code; tackle environment management and test infra to reduce lead time.
• Architect secure, cost-effective, scalable multi-tenant, multi-region infrastructure; address tech debt proactively.
• Bring platform engineering standards into the data layer (dbt, Databricks): CI/CD, automated testing, environment promotion, observability.
• Mentor engineers across squads and promote reliability and developer experience as a culture carrier.
• Treat internal developers as customers: gather feedback, measure satisfaction, iterate on tooling.

Skills

Platform engineering

SRE

Cloud infrastructure

Observability

Terraform

AWS

Code quality

DX focus

AI-assisted tooling

Tools

Databricks

dbt

Spark

Kubernetes

Job description

Gridsight is a rapidly growing Grid/CleanTech startup on a mission to accelerate global electrification and decarbonisation. We are building a vertical SaaS platform for electricity utilities, enabling them to modernise grid operations and unlock transformational flexibility capabilities such as dynamic operating envelopes and flexible interconnections. Having recently raised our Series A funding from Airtree Ventures, Energy Transition Ventures and Area VC, we are poised for rapid growth and are seeking talented individuals to join us on our mission.

We're hiring a Staff Platform Engineer to build the foundations that let every product squad at Gridsight ship faster and with greater confidence.

You'll work across the engineering organisation — identifying the cross-cutting problems that slow squads down and solving them once, well. That might be observability, deployment pipelines, environment management, test infrastructure, or emerging areas like AI-assisted developer tooling. Wherever the leverage is, that's where you'll be.

We're building an engineering culture where AI-assisted development is the norm, not the exception. We expect our engineers to be actively using agentic coding tools and LLM-assisted workflows to move faster, think bigger, and deliver more. If you're already working this way — or you're the kind of engineer who's itching to — you'll fit right in.

What You'll Do

• Identify and solve the cross-cutting platform problems that prevent product squads from shipping faster and with confidence
• Build and operate observability platforms - metrics, tracing, logging, alerting - that give product teams and on-call engineers clear, actionable visibility into system health
• Evolve our deployment automation, release management, and infrastructure-as-code; tackle environment management and test infrastructure head-on to reduce lead time and tighten CI feedback loops
• Architect infrastructure that's secure, cost-effective, and scalable across multi-tenant, multi-region deployments - and proactively pay down tech debt before it bites
• Bring platform engineering standards into our data layer (dbt, Databricks): CI/CD, automated testing, environment promotion, observability
• Act as a culture carrier for platform and reliability engineering — mentoring engineers across squads, sharing patterns, and shifting how the broader engineering organisation thinks about reliability and developer experience
• Treat internal developers as customers: seek feedback, measure satisfaction, iterate on tooling based on real friction

What You'll Bring

• 6+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated impact at Staff level in platform, infrastructure, or SRE domains
• Deep cloud infrastructure experience at production scale - compute, networking, storage, IAM, cost management - with strong infrastructure-as-code and container orchestration skills (AWS and Terraform preferred)
• Proven track record building and operating observability platforms (metrics, tracing, logging, alerting) at meaningful scale
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: clean architecture, testing, version control, code review
• A track record of defining systems and practices, not just working within them — you set technical direction, form strong opinions grounded in experience, and drive outcomes without close direction
• Demonstrated experience as an enabling function within a product engineering organisation — reducing cognitive load on product teams, building capabilities they adopt willingly, and knowing when to consult, guide, or step back
• Fluency in AI-assisted development tooling — you're already using agentic coding tools or LLM-assisted workflows to accelerate your work

What Would Set You Apart

• SRE background: SLOs, error budgets, incident management, chaos engineering, war games
• Experience building internal developer platforms or PaaS capabilities with a strong focus on DX
• Familiarity with data platform technologies (Databricks, Spark, dbt) and their infrastructure requirements
• Experience with authentication and identity patterns (Auth0, Azure AD, SAML/SSO, OIDC) in multi-tenant environments
• Contributions to open-source projects or technical communities
• Experience in energy, utilities, or infrastructure technology

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and equity package
• Remote-first, with head office in Sydney
• A talented team of engineers, data scientists, and power systems specialists working on hard problems that matter