Lead Engineer
Envato
15 days ago
Sydney, Australia
Mid Level / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Drive initiatives to improve reliability, performance, and security.
- Educate the team on delivering reliable and secure systems.
- Design, build, and provision new infrastructure for products.
- Review code quality and mentor engineers.
- Increase mean-time-between-failures and decrease mean-time-to-repair.
- Contribute to monitoring and measurement systems.
- Help engineering teams operate systems effectively.
- Participate in emergency response and incident reviews.
- Contribute to performance tuning and efficiency improvements.
- Identify and mitigate security risks.
- Support change management in applications and infrastructure.
- Advise on capacity requirements using monitoring data.
Requirements
- Experience with automated failover scenarios.
- Commitment to continual learning.
- Experience in both operations-focused and development-focused work.
- Strong communication skills for team collaboration.
- Experience building and maintaining cloud-based applications.
- Knowledge of caching techniques.
- Experience with CDN providers and DDoS mitigation services.
- Familiarity with Linux administration.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools.
- Passion for best practice systems operations.
- Experience with public and private cloud-hosted infrastructure.
- SQL database management experience.
Benefits
- Flexible working arrangements with remote-first options.
- Work from anywhere for up to 3 months per year.
- Annual connection budget for team interactions.
- Learning budget for personal development.
- Home office allowance for remote work setup.
- Access to a holistic assistance program for wellbeing.
- Two days of volunteer leave per year.
- 20 weeks paid primary carer leave and 6 weeks paid secondary carer leave.
Tech Stack
AWSCloudflareDatadogLinuxMySQLRollbarTerraform
Categories
BackendDevOpsSecurity