Staff Infrastructure Platform Engineer

GRIDSIGHT

. Build and run metrics, tracing, logging and alerting platforms .

Posted 10/15/2026full-timeRemote • AustraliaLeadWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and managing observability platforms, cloud infrastructure, and infrastructure-as-code, with a strong focus on improving developer experience and operational reliability. Proven ability to mentor engineers and drive cross-team collaboration while owning the technical direction and roadmap of platform initiatives.

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Cloud Infrastructure ManagementInfrastructure-As-Code (Terraform)Observability Platform DevelopmentSRE Practices (SLOs, Incident Response)AI-Assisted Development Tools

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Hard Skills

Cloud InfrastructureInfrastructure-As-CodeAWSTerraformSLOsIncident ResponseCI/CD Pipeline DesignMetrics and LoggingSecurity FundamentalsMulti-Tenant SaaS Patterns

Soft Skills

MentoringCollaborationLeadership

Tools & Technologies

ECSAI-Assisted Development Tools

Industry Keywords

SOC 2 ControlsCost ManagementNetwork SegmentationSecrets ManagementDistributed Tracing

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and run metrics, tracing, logging and alerting platforms
Set observability patterns that enable product teams to own their observability
Evolve and consolidate deployment pipelines, release management and infrastructure-as-code
Own environment management and test infrastructure to shorten lead times and improve CI feedback
Design secure, cost-effective, multi-tenant, multi-region infrastructure across Australia, New Zealand and the US
Work with IT Ops on SOC 2 controls and platform-generated compliance evidence
Define SLOs and error budgets, improve incident response and learning, and participate in on-call
Improve developer experience through tools and abstractions that internal engineers adopt
Use AI-assisted development tooling to accelerate delivery
Mentor engineers and raise organisational standards for reliability, operability and developer experience
Run the platform as a product with clear interfaces, documentation and support
Set technical direction and own a multi-quarter platform roadmap
Shape cross-team decisions through proposals and collaboration
Identify high-leverage infrastructure problems and help establish the Infrastructure Platform team

Requirements

What you’ll need

~8 or more years in software engineering, with recent work at Staff level (or clearly operating at it) in platform, infrastructure or SRE
Deep experience running cloud infrastructure in production, including compute, networking, storage, IAM and cost management
Strong infrastructure-as-code skills; AWS and Terraform preferred
Track record of building and operating observability platforms that teams rely on
Hands-on SRE practice: SLOs, error budgets, incident response and runbooks
Experience on a platform team in a product engineering organisation, running the platform as a product that teams adopt willingly
Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to set direction and drive outcomes without close supervision
Fluency in AI-assisted development tools, including agentic coding tools or LLM-assisted workflows
Technical knowledge of AWS cloud architecture, networking, compute, storage, security and cost optimisation
Infrastructure-as-code design and lifecycle, ideally Terraform
Containers and orchestration, specifically ECS
CI/CD pipeline design and release strategies such as blue-green, canary and progressive delivery
Observability systems: metrics, distributed tracing, log aggregation and alerting
Security fundamentals: IAM, network segmentation and secrets management
Multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure patterns

Benefits

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