2 months ago
Auckland, New ZealandSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve internal AI tooling, developer tooling, guardrails, and golden paths.
- Contribute to cloud infrastructure architecture decisions balancing velocity, cost, reliability, and operational simplicity.
- Implement security guardrails and defaults across IAM, network policy, secrets management, and software supply chain.
- Operate and improve core compute and orchestration systems at scale.
- Advance observability and incident tooling and participate in an on-call rotation.
- Automate infrastructure management with Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, and internal tooling.
- Contribute to architecture discussions and platform standards while mentoring engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- Deep experience building and operating AWS at scale, including container orchestration, cloud networking, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
- Production experience delivering meaningful platform or infrastructure work, ideally in a high-growth environment.
- Experience building developer platforms, golden paths, paved roads, or internal tooling.
- Hands-on experience hardening cloud environments and treating security as part of platform engineering.
- Understanding of observability, testability, and debugging at scale.
- Strong cross-functional communication, design discussion, writing, and code review skills.
- Comfort with ambiguity, pragmatic decision-making, and incident response.
- Backend product development experience is a plus.
- Terraform experience at scale is a plus, as is production experience building AI agents or AI-assisted tooling.
- A degree in software engineering or equivalent is nice to have but not essential.
Benefits
- A dog-friendly office in central Auckland.
- Southern Cross Health Insurance support.
- Six months of fully paid parental leave for primary caregivers and four weeks for secondary caregivers, plus other parental benefits.
- An annual NZ$1,000 self-development budget.
- Wellness leave and unlimited paid annual leave.
- Salary, benefits, and employee stock ownership plan.
- Snacks and drinks provided at the office.
About Halter
Halter builds a livestock management system combining solar-powered smart collars, farm sensors, and software to virtually fence, move, and monitor herds. It sells hardware with a subscription platform to dairy and grazing farmers, letting them remotely shift cattle and track health and behavior. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand, the privately held company is backed by investors including DCVC and Blackbird.