Senior Platform Engineer Melbourne, Australia

The Littlepay Platform Team provides tooling and support for our Engineering organisation, owns shared and fundamental infrastructure, and collaborates with teams for their DevOps or infrastructure projects. Reporting to the Platform Engineering Manager, you'll encourage and grow DevOps practices across Engineering through tooling, vendor management, and education. You'll also work on and be on call for our base infrastructure across the platform, including the network, ECS runtime, PKI and RDS.

This role calls for an enthusiastic engineer who can use their experience to:

• Support the Littlepay engineering function through tooling, guidance and education
• Join the on call roster for our platform
• Consider and improve the Littlepay software ecosystem across the full build-test-deploy-release-monitor cycle
• Maintain, improve and design cost-effective and scalable PCI-compliant infrastructure
• Mentor and support platform team members
• Stay up-to-date with AWS services and industry trends
• Write and maintain internal tools, services and documentation
• Collaborate with engineers from across the organisation

Ideally, you'll have:

• Minimum 5 years' experience in DevOps, Cloud or Platform engineering
• Programming and Scripting — any language, familiarity with Go, Bash and Java preferred
• The Cloud — strong cloud skills with any provider, AWS preferred
• Communication — strong written and verbal communication is important
• Empathy — we're a service provider, so having high empathy for our internal stakeholders is a big deal
• A love of learning — we take learning and growth seriously and you'll need to be down with that

To complement the skills of our existing team members, we would be keen to hear from anyone with a background in any one (or more) of the following:

• Observability
• SRE
• Authentication and authorisation
• Scaling serverless cloud systems
• PKI

We love to look after our people. At Littlepay, you'll be part of an inclusive and diverse team that celebrates the differences and unique gifts we each bring to work.

You'll have access to:

• A high trust working environment, with usage of cloud collaboration tools like Notion, Slack, Miro, Gmail and Jira that help us work together effectively
• Harrison Assessments - our talent management provider that facilitates continuous professional development
• A variety of flexible leave options
• Superannuation contributions on all paid parental leave payments
• A company-wide paid day off
• Our flexible public holiday program
• Flexible (hybrid) working conditions
• Wellbeing support including an optional School of Life subscription and counselling via the School of Life (UK) or our EAP program (Australia)
• Our generous employee referral program
• Mid-year, quarterly, and end-of-year corporate and team events and workshops
• Short-term remote working arrangements
• International travel opportunities (dependent on role)

For those assigned to an office location, we generally expect a minimum two-day presence in the office each week. This may vary depending on your role, team, and location. Some offices may require more frequent office attendance to support cross-functional collaboration, customer engagement, or specific team workflows. Your hiring manager will provide details relevant to your role.

We aim to strike a healthy balance between in-person connection and flexibility, while staying connected to deliver with speed and agility as we continue to scale, ensuring our ways of working support both our people and our shared ambition to move more people through better payment experiences.

If you've been shortlisted for the role, you'll first have a chat with our Talent team, who will set up an interview if the stars align. A short workplace preferences questionnaire will also be sent to help us learn more about the way you prefer to work. Following a successful first interview, you'll meet with a second set of Littlepay folks, and be invited to participate in the final stage before being presented with an offer.

If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process or if you require any accommodations for any stage in the interview process, please don't hesitate to let us know. We also encourage applications from underrepresented groups and welcome fresh perspectives.

Ultimately, being part of our small but mighty team means you'll have the opportunity to learn about micropayments, and have a hand in the provision of services that impact millions of people. You'll help us deliver on our revolutionary product roadmap and help scale our platform as we continue to expand across the globe.

If this opportunity interests you, hit apply We look forward to learning about you.

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