Senior Staff Engineer - Engineering Platforms

Company Description

About Seek

SEEK’s portfolio of diverse businesses make a positive impact on a truly global scale. Our purpose is to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organisations succeed. We create world-class technology solutions to connect more people to relevant employment, education, small business and volunteer opportunities. We have a culture of high-performance in our workplaces and celebrate the diversity of our employees who contribute to the success of our organisation.

Life At Seek

SEEK’s purpose is at the centre of everything we do. Our SEEK, which defines the way we work, is all about what makes us unique and a little bit different. Passion, Team, Delivery and Future are our principles that drive innovation and creativity. SEEK strives to support employee wellbeing by providing an amazing experience at work which led us to being named AFR BOSS Top 10 Best Places to Work in Technology (2021-2024). We are proud to work in an environment that's inclusive where everyone's unique ideas, experiences and perspectives are valued.

Job Description

The Team

Engineering Enablement teams are the custodians of systems, tools, patterns and practices that help engineering teams build better software, together.

Through our Developer Experience and Release Engineering teams, we own the platforms, tools, and practices that remove friction from the software development lifecycle—from code creation to production deployment. We seek to improve productivity drivers, measured through our Developer Experience Index, while maintaining quality and reliability standards.

Engineering Enablement is part of the wider Engineering Platforms team, and we aim to accelerate SEEK's speed to market by eliminating developer friction through:

• Platform Excellence: Maintaining and evolving core development infrastructure (Buildkite, GitHub, ArgoCD, Backstage) that enables fast, reliable software delivery.
• Innovation Adoption: Pioneering and safely integrating cutting-edge tools, including AI-assisted coding technologies, that multiply developer capability.
• Experience Optimization: Continuously measuring and improving all aspects of the developer journey, from documentation and onboarding to deployment and monitoring.

The Role

This Senior Staff Engineer role is a technical specialist role and senior member within our SEEK Group Engineering teams. As a Senior Staff Engineer you will act as a sub-domain subject matter expert, with the primary focus of partnering with Engineering Managers, Heads of Engineering, Architecture, and Heads of Product to drive the sub-domain strategy.

Day-to-day, you will work collaboratively with your team management peers (Engineering Managers), providing technical guidance and specialist knowledge of codebases/systems/tools/platforms and support the resolution of technical issues.

As a Senior Staff Engineer you will advocates for technical best practices that will support the delivery of software. You will be accountable for advocating clean, scalable, testable code, ensuring high development practices across your sub-domain. Line

Key Accountabilities

• Define and drive sub‑domain technical strategy and roadmap.
• Ensure systems are well‑architected, high‑performing, and aligned with SEEK’s standards.
• Partner with technical stakeholders to plan, prioritise, and deliver complex initiatives.
• Act as the key technical escalation point for critical issues and incidents.
• Uplift code quality, security, and engineering practices across teams.
• Mentor Staff Engineers and grow technical leadership capability.
• Attract, onboard, and retain top engineering talent.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing, developing, and maintaining cloud‑first applications and APIs.
• End‑to‑end ownership of services, systems, or platforms.
• Strong CI/CD experience with process improvement track record.
• Skilled in secure coding and writing well‑tested, maintainable software.
• Experience with logging, monitoring, and alerting for operational health.
• Ability to introduce and embed practices such as TDD, BDD, and Clean Code.
• Confident in negotiating technical trade‑offs with senior stakeholders.
• Experienced mentor and capability‑builder for engineering teams.
• Comfortable with operational support duties, including on‑call rotations.

Additional Information

At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.

Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

For this role, only those candidates with the eligible right to work will be considered.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.