Senior Platform and DevOps Engineer

Company Description

This is an exciting time at Luxury Escapes as we look to build our growing Technology Team in Sydney We're looking for an Software Engineer for our Platform Team - Engineering Excellency - to ensure the Luxury Escapes Platform remains a class leading and innovative travel booking platform

Be part of the team transforming global travel experiences

Luxury Escapes is one of the world's fastest-growing travel websites, with over 8 million members. We are growing rapidly & seeking a Software Engineer to join our team.

This particular role is for our Platform team. If you have led teams with solid development experience, in-depth DevOps and Security knowledge, you love promoting best practices and fantastic developer experiences - we want to hear from you

Working at Luxury Escapes

Our mission is to delight our customers with incredible deals for the world's best holidays.

We are a collective of forward-thinking people, driven to challenge the travel industry and ourselves to bring outstanding travel experiences to our customer community.

Our Sydney office is on Kent Street - a short walk from Wynyard station and close to great cafes in Barangaroo.

** Luxury Escapes is an in-person company. We work and collaborate together, face to face in our sydney-based, Barangaroo office.**

Job Description

This role is ideal for a highly experienced engineer who combines strong application development skills with deep AWS infrastructure expertise. You'll work across the full stack, designing and evolving platform architecture, driving observability and security, and building tools that empower teams to deliver faster and safer.

If you're passionate about crafting scalable systems, owning both code and cloud, and setting the standard for engineering excellence, we'd love to hear from you.

You'll join a lean, empowered team where we prioritise outcomes over process. Our cross-functional squads, Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers, focus on solving real customer and business problems, guided by an MVP, iteration, and "build–measure–learn" mindset.

What you'll do:

• Design, maintain, and evolve our AWS environments for scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams across Product, Design, and Engineering.
• Proactively improve platform stability, resilience, and observability to minimise support burden.
• Enhance monitoring, alerting, and visibility using tools like New Relic, CloudWatch, and Prometheus.
• Drive adoption of best practices in CI/CD, automated testing, and modern DevOps workflows.
• Champion software engineering excellence — from clean code to robust architecture and observability.
• Strengthen security and authentication across our platform in partnership with security teams.
• Contribute directly to application code, shared libraries, and developer tooling.
• Lead and participate in architecture reviews, technical discussions, and code reviews.
• Continuously improve developer experience through better tooling, automation, and documentation.
• Lead incident response and recovery efforts to ensure uptime and reliability.

Qualifications

What we're looking for:

• Strong expertise in backend development (ideally, but not necessary , TypeScript) and understanding of microservices architecture
• Experience with AWS and DevOps practices, with a focus on building scalable, reliable systems
• Experience building environments with IAC tools such as Terraform or Pulumi
• Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases, and the ability to optimise queries and database performance
• A passion for creating a collaborative, learning-focused team environment, where innovation and best practices are encouraged
• Strong problem solving skills
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts.
• A commitment to continuous improvement and delivering high-quality solutions that delight customers.
• Lead incident response, coordinate recovery efforts, and minimise downtime
• Focus on Automation

Relevant skills

• Extensive experience as a software engineer with strong backend skills, ideally and TypeScript, and a solid understanding of microservice architecture.
• In-depth AWS expertise, not just using managed services, but designing and automating cloud infrastructure (VPCs, networking, IAM, scaling, resilience).
• Proven experience building infrastructure as code with Terraform or Pulumi.
• Strong understanding of DevOps principles, CI/CD pipelines, and operational excellence.
• Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) and query optimisation.
• Solid knowledge of observability stacks (New Relic, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.).
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to diagnose issues across unfamiliar services.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; able to guide and mentor peers.
• Passion for developer productivity, automation, and continuous improvement.
• A mindset of ownership, curiosity, and technical leadership.

Additional Information

What's in it for you?

We consider our people one of our most important assets – and we want our team to love their working lives When you work for Luxury Escapes, you can look forward to:

• Excellent Remuneration package
• 20% Discount on Luxury Holidays and Experiences
• Breakfast and lunch are provided 5-days a week
• 1/2 day of birthday leave
• Beautiful facilities where you can book in yoga, pilates or jump on a peloton bike
• A super collaborative team that enjoys creating great platforms

Employee experience is king here, with weekly events, monthly recognition programs and significant professional development opportunities. (We have won awards for it – but the HR team doesn't like to brag much)

If you're Sydney-based and this role sounds appealing but you don't check every box, apply anyway, we want to hear what you can do

We embrace diversity in our people and make hiring decisions based on your experiences and skills. We do not discriminate based on gender identity, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

You'll find a collaborative, inclusive, and respectful workplace here at Luxury Escapes, and we are proud to celebrate who you are. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments during the interview.

We are a 2025 Circle Back Initiative Employer, committing to responding to every applicant.

If you're interested in the role but don't check every box, apply anyway, we'd love to hear from you

We embrace diversity in our people and make hiring decisions based on your experiences and skills. We do not discriminate based on gender identity, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. You'll find a collaborative, inclusive, and respectful workplace here at Luxury Escapes, and we are proud to celebrate who you are. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments during the interview.

As a 2025 Circle Back Initiative employer, we're committed to responding to every applicant.