Staff Platform Engineer
GRIDSIGHT
Belconnen
1 week ago
Staff Platform Engineer
Gridsight, a growing Grid/CleanTech startup, seeks a Staff Platform Engineer to build foundational systems that accelerate product delivery. The role involves solving cross-cutting platform problems, building observability, and driving developer experience, requiring 6+ years of experience and deep cloud infrastructure expertise.
On-site
Full-time
Principal
AWS
Terraform
Salary
Not specified
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
AWSTerraformInfrastructure as CodeContainer orchestrationObservabilityCI/CDdbtDatabricksAI-assisted developmentAgentic coding tools
Soft Skills
MentoringCommunicationProblem solvingLeadershipCollaborationFeedback seekingIteration
Tools (Must-have)
GitHubCode review tools
Preferred Qualifications
Technical (Nice-to-have)
SLOsError budgetsIncident managementChaos engineeringAuth0Azure ADSAML/SSOOIDCSparkOpen-source contributions
Key Responsibilities
- Identify and solve cross-cutting platform problems that prevent product squads from shipping faster and with confidence
- Build and operate observability platforms — metrics, tracing, logging, alerting
- Evolve deployment automation, release management, and infrastructure-as-code
- Tackle environment management and test infrastructure to reduce lead time and tighten CI feedback loops
- Architect infrastructure that's secure, cost-effective, and scalable across multi-tenant, multi-region deployments
- Bring platform engineering standards into data layer (dbt, Databricks): CI/CD, automated testing, environment promotion, observability
- Act as culture carrier for platform and reliability engineering, mentoring engineers across squads
- Treat internal developers as customers: seek feedback, measure satisfaction, iterate on tooling
Staff Platform EngineerPlatform EngineeringInfrastructureCloudAWSTerraformObservabilityCI/CDCleanTechUtilities