Senior Principal Engineer - Platform Engineering
Pepperstone12 hours ago
Melbourne, Australia +2 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define multi-year platform architecture across AI, cloud, networking, identity, and data while identifying scaling, cost, and resilience risks.
- Write production code and infrastructure as code for complex platform challenges involving low-latency connectivity, high-throughput streaming, large data migrations, identity migrations, and platform reliability.
- Design Pepperstone’s AI platform across model access, agent orchestration, tool connections, retrieval, evaluation, and runtime governance.
- Create developer-platform capabilities including service templates, CI/CD, observability, secrets, infrastructure as code, and paved roads.
- Mentor senior and staff engineers, contribute to hiring, and help establish technical interview standards.
- Advise the CTO and technology leadership while incorporating security, resilience, data protection, and regulatory requirements into technical decisions.
Requirements
- Extensive experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems and platforms with proven Staff- or Principal-level impact.
- Deep hands-on experience writing production code, infrastructure as code, reviewing code, and prototyping solutions.
- Deep expertise in two or three areas such as AI platforms, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, global networking, identity and authorization, or data and streaming platforms.
- Production experience with AI platforms, including LLM APIs, agent orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, AI observability, and AI-assisted engineering.
- Experience building platforms as products, developer experiences, paved roads, and capabilities adopted across multiple teams.
- Experience operating highly available systems with strong knowledge of reliability, observability, performance, and cost.
- Experience influencing technical direction across multiple teams, leading significant live-platform migrations, communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and mentoring senior and staff engineers.
- Experience with low-latency trading, market data, payments infrastructure, high-throughput streaming, or identity and security at scale is valuable but not essential.
Benefits
- Competitive salary structure with a company bonus scheme.
- Flexible hybrid working with the option to work remotely from anywhere for up to four weeks per year.
- Ongoing personal development and learning opportunities.
- 15 weeks of paid primary-carer parental leave and four weeks of paid secondary-carer leave.
- Three paid volunteering days per year and a Workplace Giving Program.
- Frequent events and celebrations, including a weekly social.
- Renovated Melbourne office at Collins Square with end-of-trip facilities, bicycle parking, change rooms, showers, a stocked kitchen, coffee machines, and specialty teas.
- Full-time role based in Melbourne, Australia.
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About Pepperstone
Pepperstone is a Melbourne‑headquartered, privately held online broker for forex and CFDs serving retail and professional traders worldwide. Founded in 2010 and owned by CPE Capital, it offers trading in FX, indices, commodities, cryptocurrencies and more via MetaTrader and cTrader platforms, with regulation across major jurisdictions (e.g., ASIC and FCA). Revenue comes from spreads, commissions, and financing on leveraged products.