Staff Software Engineer: AI-Driven Cloud-Native Specialist

Jobtailor; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a software engineer to design, build, deploy and operate cloud-native services on AWS, delivering AI-enabled experiences and scalable architectures in Melbourne.

You will work with Python back-end, Node.js, React, and collaborate with Product Owners and Data Scientists to ship measurable improvements for employee experiences.

The role emphasizes DevSecOps, CI/CD, security, and reliability, with opportunities to contribute to AI tooling and governance.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering capability and experience designing, building, testing and maintaining software solutions in collaborative delivery teams.
• Hands-on capability in Python and AWS
• Experience in or exposure to Node.js and React
• Practical exposure to AI engineering, including prompts, guardrails, evaluation, grounding, and building reliable AI solutions that minimise hallucinations and bias
• Strong capability in DevSecOps, CI/CD, automation and engineering quality
• Mindset focused on security, resilience and operational excellence
• Nice to have: mobile engineering experience
• Nice to have: exposure to HR technology or regulated enterprise environments
• Nice to have: evidence of AI experimentation through side projects, labs or recent hands-on initiatives

Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy and operate cloud-native services and AI-enabled experiences using AWS and modern engineering patterns.
• Develop production-ready software across Python back-end services, Node.js layers and React-based user interfaces.
• Contribute to architecture and design decisions, reusable platform components, integration patterns and API-led services across the HR Technology ecosystem.
• Apply DevSecOps, CI/CD, observability and automation practices to improve security, operability and delivery quality.
• Build or collaborate on AI agents and AI-powered features within the first three to six months.
• Improve robustness, scalability and governance in the existing codebase.
• Partner with Product Owners, Data Scientists and Principal Engineers to deliver measurable outcomes for employee experiences.
• Strengthen engineering foundations to improve scalability, resilience, security and engineering excellence.

Skills

Software engineering excellence

DevSecOps mindset

AI engineering experience

Problem-solving

Tools

AWS

Python

Node.js

React

CI/CD tooling

Observability

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a software engineer to design, build, deploy and operate cloud-native services on AWS, delivering AI-enabled experiences and scalable architectures in Melbourne.

You will work with Python back-end, Node.js, React, and collaborate with Product Owners and Data Scientists to ship measurable improvements for employee experiences.

The role emphasizes DevSecOps, CI/CD, security, and reliability, with opportunities to contribute to AI tooling and governance.