2 months ago
Christchurch, New Zealand or Auckland, New ZealandSenior
Responsibilities
- Ensure the stability, scalability, security, uptime, and performance of cloud infrastructure, applications, and Kubernetes-powered clusters.
- Build and manage repeatable infrastructure and workload deployments using Infrastructure-as-Code, Terraform, GitOps, ArgoCD, Python, and Bash.
- Monitor and optimise cloud and on-prem infrastructure costs and recommend resource allocation or architecture changes.
- Partner with developers, data engineers, and leadership on infrastructure planning, improvements, tooling, training, and software delivery.
- Drive improvements to software production readiness and resolve problems affecting critical systems.
- Participate in incident resolution and help debug applications, networks, databases, and compute systems.
- Maintain awareness of system capacity and performance and support scalable networks, platforms, and engineering tools.
Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain large, established software systems beyond simple scripts and utilities.
- Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures, concurrency, architecture, APIs, testing, and design patterns.
- Knowledge of system engineering techniques such as profiling, diagnosing lock contention, and identifying network issues.
- Hands-on experience with SRE practices, containerisation, Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code, GitOps, scalable infrastructure, and CI/CD systems.
- Deep familiarity with at least one major cloud platform and Linux, including server tuning, database and storage management, and Kubernetes cluster operations.
- A track record of ownership over critical systems and successful delivery of complex projects.
- Leadership experience through mentoring junior engineers or leading small teams or projects, even without formal management responsibility.
- Strong written and verbal communication, collaboration, initiative, adaptability, and willingness to work across teams.
- Preferred experience in high-growth startups, security compliance and certifications, GCP, ArgoCD, GitLab CI, Kafka, Apache Cassandra, Postgres, or Rust.
Benefits
- Catered lunches, snacks, and drinks on workdays at Auckland, Christchurch, London, and San Francisco offices.
- A $1,500 annual wellness allowance or local equivalent.
- Three months of fully paid parental leave for primary caregivers plus a flexible paid return-to-work arrangement.
- Paid 24/7 car parking or a commute allowance for commuting to a Partly office or co-working space.
- Office-first work arrangement in Christchurch, Auckland, London, and San Francisco, with flexibility to manage schedules in a high-trust environment.
- Company happy hours, monthly lunches, quarterly Season Openers, and an annual global offsite.
- Travel and accommodation covered for onboarding and quarterly Season Openers; relocation assistance is available for moves to Partly HQ.
Tech Stack
Apache CassandraApache KafkaBashDockerGitLab CI/CDGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesLinuxPostgreSQLPythonRustTerraform
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About Partly
Partly builds AI infrastructure for the automotive repair and parts industry, including a foundational model (Interpreter) that understands vehicle damage and the parts needed to fix it. Its platform and apps, including a product information management system, are used by suppliers, distributors, marketplaces, and repairers via APIs and software tools. Privately held and headquartered in Austin, Texas, it serves thousands of businesses across the global collision and repair supply chain, with teams in the US, UK, and New Zealand.