Halter

Lead Software Engineer - Platform

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1 month ago
Auckland, New ZealandStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Drive adoption and evolution of Halter’s internal AI tooling, including CI-failure triage, pull request review bots, and AI-summarized build notifications.
  • Build developer tooling, guardrails, golden paths, paved roads, and internal platforms that enable engineers to ship safely and quickly.
  • Set technical direction for globally scalable AWS cloud infrastructure while balancing velocity, cost, reliability, and operational simplicity.
  • Establish platform security practices covering IAM, network policy, secrets management, and software supply chain security.
  • Maintain reliable compute and orchestration systems supporting the collar-to-cloud platform.
  • Advance observability, incident tooling, and preventative reliability practices.
  • Automate infrastructure management through Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, and internal tooling.
  • Lead cross-functional architecture discussions and define platform practices and standards.
  • Mentor and develop engineers through design discussions, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation and resolve incidents with the platform team.

Requirements

  • Deep experience building and operating AWS at scale, including container orchestration, cloud networking, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
  • Experience leading platform or infrastructure work in a high-growth environment and setting direction across multiple teams.
  • Experience building golden paths, paved roads, or internal platforms that improve developer experience.
  • Hands-on experience hardening cloud environments and treating security as a core part of platform engineering.
  • Understanding of how AI tooling can improve engineering workflows; production experience building an AI agent or AI-assisted tooling is a bonus.
  • Ability to build systems that are observable, testable, and easy to debug at scale.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, influencing, mentoring, and architectural leadership skills.
  • Comfort navigating ambiguity, making pragmatic decisions, and working with a low-ego, impact-oriented approach.
  • Backend product development experience is a plus.

Benefits

  • Meaningful work helping farmers improve livelihoods and build more sustainable operations.
  • A talented, diverse, kind, and driven team working on complex problems.
  • Autonomy, mastery, learning, and opportunities for continuous professional development.
  • A $1,000 personal growth fund.

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501-1,000 employees
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