Staff Engineer
As part of SEEK’s Engineering Platforms group, Team Automat is all about building the platform interface between SEEK’s preferred cloud infrastructure and application engineers, the connective tissue that turns cloud infrastructure capabilities into a seamless build, deploy, and run experience for SEEK’s core applications.
Our mission is to make application delivery feel straightforward and predictable. Application engineers shouldn’t need to reason about Kubernetes internals, cloud primitives, IAM, or networking. Team Automat packages those concerns into well-defined platforms, workflows, and golden paths that enable teams to ship confidently and accelerate delivery to our customers.
Key responsibilities of Team-Automat include:
Platform Interfaces: Developing the primary interfaces through which engineers interact with SEEK’s internal platform, including CLI tools, dashboards, and APIs.
Automation & Developer Tools: Building tools to help engineers create, understand, and operate systems on the platform efficiently.
Platform Guidance & Standards: Providing recommendations and best practices to ensure consistent, high-quality developer experiences across SEEK.
Reliability & Resilience: Ensuring platform services are reliable, observable, and maintainable, aligning with SEEK’s engineering standards.
Continuously improves how we build, ship, and operate software across SEEK’s cloud environments
About the Role
We’re looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to provide senior technical leadership in the Automat team. In this role, you will lead the design, evolution, and operation of our Kubernetes-based platform infrastructure, shaping how SEEK engineers build, deploy, and run their services. Passionate about improving developer experience through shared platform solutions and scalable engineering practices.
You will bring deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, a strong foundation in modern software engineering practices, and a passion for mentoring and lifting others. You’ll help define our platform strategy, build tools and frameworks that improve developer experience, and ensure our systems are secure, reliable, and scalable.
This is a role with broad impact across multiple engineering teams and domains at SEEK.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, development, and optimisation of SEEK’s Kubernetes-based internal platform.
- Design and build developer-facing tools and automation (including a central CLI) to improve deployment, observability, security, and day‑to‑day workflows.
- Act as a developer advocate, partnering with engineering teams to understand their needs and deliver the right platform capabilities.
- Ensure platform reliability, security, performance, and observability, driving continuous improvement and operational excellence.
- Set and champion platform standards, best practices, and modern engineering patterns across Engineering Platforms and the wider organisation.
- Lead, mentor, and coach engineers in a small, high-impact team, shaping the Automat roadmap and lifting technical excellence and delivery.
Additional Context
- Team Automat is building an internal platform on top of Kubernetes, focused on developer tooling, automation, and observability.
- Key technologies include AWS EKS, Istio, Argo CD, Buildkite, PagerDuty, and Datadog.
- The CLI and automation tooling are central to the developer experience.
- You’ll work in a small, high-impact team, contributing to both strategy and hands-on implementation.
Qualifications
Proficient in creating and maintaining software in two or more modern languages, preferably Golang.
Strong software engineering fundamentals, including SDLC, design patterns, and software architecture principles.
Strong software engineering skills for building automation, tooling, platform components, and self-service developer experiences.
Platform engineering experience building and scaling distributed systems at enterprise scale.
Good understanding of Kubernetes for platform building, including experience working with operators, controllers, or developer tooling.
Proven technical leadership driving architectural decisions and strategy across multi-team or multi-tenant platforms.
Infrastructure as Code mastery with Terraform and Helm, plus experience with GitOps workflows and CI/CD pipeline design.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills – you enjoy working closely with engineers, architects, and stakeholders, and can explain complex topics clearly.
An innovative, developer-first mindset – you’re always looking for ways to improve systems, processes, and engineer experience across SEEK’s cloud and platform environments.
Additional Information
Permanent Perks
At SEEK we offer:
- Annual Performance Bonus Plan
- Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
- Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days and Volunteer Days, as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave
- Support for parents with 14 weeks paid primary carers leave and 2 weeks paid leave for partners
At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.
We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.
Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.
For this role, only those candidates with the eligible right to work will be considered.
SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.