3 months 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.
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.