Staff Engineer

Company Description

About SEEK

SEEK's portfolio of diverse businessesmake a positive impacton a truly global scale. Our purpose is to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organisations succeed. We create world-class technology solutions toconnect more people to relevantemployment, education, small businessandvolunteer opportunities. Wehavea cultureofhigh-performancein our workplaces andcelebrate the diversity ofour employeeswhocontribute to thesuccess of our organisation.

Life at SEEK

SEEK's purpose is at the centre of everything we do. Our SEEK, which defines the way we work, is all about what makes us unique and a little bit different. Passion, Team, Delivery and Future are our principles that drive innovation and creativity. SEEK strives to support employee wellbeing by providing an amazing experience at work which led us to being named AFR BOSS Top 10 Best Places to Work in Technology (2021-2024). We are proud to work in an environment that's inclusive where everyone's unique ideas, experiences and perspectives are valued.

Our award-winning head office in Cremorne (just a 4 min walk from Richmond station) provides an exceptional space to collaborate with colleagues. The building provides sweeping views of the city, a games area, sit and stand desks at every workstation, modern end-of-trip facilities and Thursday night drinks which gives our people an opportunity to connect in a social setting.

About the team:

Part of SEEK's Engineering Platforms group, the Workload-Hosting team is responsible for building and maintaining the foundational infrastructure that powers application workloads across our cloud platforms. We enable internal teams to deploy, scale, and operate services reliably and securely, with minimal friction.

Our mission is to provide a resilient, automated, and developer-friendly hosting environment that supports both legacy and modern workloads. Our team embraces Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), cloud-native tooling, and automation to minimize toil and accelerate delivery.

About the Role:

Part of SEEK's Engineering Platforms group, we are looking for a highly experienced Staff Platform Engineer to lead the design and evolution of our Kubernetes-based platform infrastructure. This role requires deep technical expertise in Kubernetes internals, a strong foundation in software engineering best practices, and a passion for mentoring junior engineers. You will help shape our platform strategy, build tools and frameworks that improve developer experience, and ensure our systems are secure, reliable, and scalable.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the architecture, development, and optimization of internal platform services built on Kubernetes.

  • Provide subject matter expertise on Kubernetes internals, including the control plane, networking, scheduling, and extensibility via CRDs and operators.

    • Build tools and frameworks to improve deployment, monitoring, security, and developer workflows.

      • Drive adoption of modern infrastructure and software engineering best practices across the platform team and broader engineering org.

        • Mentor and support junior engineers, particularly in Kubernetes usage, platform reliability, and scalable system design.

          • Partner closely with the Engineering Manager and Principal Staff Engineer to define and implement platform roadmaps.

            • Ensure high availability, security, and performance of platform services through automation, observability, and testing.

              • Contribute to the continuous improvement of our Kubernetes-based infrastructure.

                • Influence and lead technical decisions within the team and across the organization.

                  • Bring an innovation and improvement mindset—continuously seeking ways to enhance platform capabilities, developer experience, and operational efficiency.

Key Technologies:

• Kubernetes (including deep knowledge of internals)

  • AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)

    • BuildKite (CI/CD)

      • Datadog, Prometheus (observability)

        • PagerDuty (incident management)
          

        Qualifications
        • Excellent experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, or DevOps, with demonstrated leadership in large-scale systems.
        • In-depth expertise in Kubernetes architecture and ecosystem.
        • Strong programming and scripting skills, particularly in Go or Bash.
        • Experience building platform components such as Kubernetes operators, admission controllers, or internal developer platforms.
        • Proven ability to lead and influence infrastructure and architectural decisions at scale.
        • Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Helm).
        • Exceptional problem-solving skills and the ability to influence and lead technical decisions within the team and across the organization.
        • Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
        • A strong innovation and improvement mindset with a drive to continuously enhance systems, processes, and developer experience.

Nice to have:

• Contributions to Kubernetes or Kubernetes-related open source projects.

  • Experience managing multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters in production environments.

    • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or similar certifications.

    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 supportor 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.