Halter

Senior Software Engineer - Platform

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23 days 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.

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501-1,000 employees
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