Senior Software Engineer - Developer Experience (Hybrid Working)

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Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur
Senior level
Marketing Tech
The Role
As a Senior Software Engineer in the Developer Experience team, you will drive technical initiatives, enhance platform health, mentor team members, and develop scalable software solutions while ensuring customer focus and alignment with SEEK's technology strategy.
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Company Description

About SEEK

At SEEK, we serve a noble purpose: to help people live more productive and fulfilling working lives and to help organisations succeed.

By joining us, you’ll be part of a multinational technology business that is far-reaching with a start-up working culture that focuses on a set of collaborative values and appreciates dynamic cultures. SEEK is a place where potential meets possibility – it’s where your career aspiration and our purpose can make great things happen.

Why join us?

Be part of a multinational tech company with strong core values to help us solve complex challenges while building a flexible, exciting career – one that could take you anywhere. We’re looking for people who thrive in dynamic teams and enjoy tackling regular new challenges in a large-scale, modern, and agile environment.

As one of Asia Pacific’s largest tech companies, you’ll contribute to multilingual systems, solving high-impact problems to the benefit of millions of people within the region. Be part of a fast-growing company with a strong culture and clear purpose, innovation and strong investment in responsible AI. SEEK offers you the opportunity to be involved in impactful work and be part of a great team.

Expect a great investment in your career development with access to workshops, conferences & courses while you work alongside seasoned experts.

Job Description

The Team 
The Developer Experience team at SEEK is dedicated to revolutionising the software engineering journey. Operating within SEEK's Engineering Platforms, our team is a cross-functional, multi-disciplinary team that work within APAC matrix organisational structure.

The team is responsible for developer experience part of Automat, SEEK’s internal developer platform, based on Cloud Native ecosystem on Kubernetes. The team is also responsible other developer systems such as Backstage and other internal tools for managing containerised workloads

About the role
Join our dynamic team at SEEK Group as a Senior Software Engineer and be a key player in shaping the future of our Engineering Platform initiatives. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to make a significant impact by developing cutting-edge software solutions within our product delivery, systems, and platform teams. Your expertise will be instrumental in enhancing engineering quality, mentoring fellow Software Engineers, and delivering user-centric, reliable, and scalable solutions. 

This role for Senior Software Engineer could include the following: 

  • Plan & lead technical initiatives within the team, providing clarity and support for other software engineers to deliver solutions that are fit for purpose. 
  • Build and operate highly scalable and performant software in alignment with SEEK’s technology strategy. 
  • Improve platform health, ensuring that our systems are, reliable, resilient, and efficient according to SEEK development practices. 
  • Ensure platform health for services owned are aligned to SEEK’s technical metrics goals. 
  • Driving internal customer focus to ensure we are delivering valuable outcomes for SEEK’s engineering teams. 
  • Foster a positive team environment, contributing to the safety, work-life balance, and wellbeing of team members.
  • Mentor new hires and support the growth of team members. 

You will work with various roles, including Software Engineers at multiple levels, Engineering Manager, Business Analyst / Iteration Manager, and Platform Engineers. 

Qualifications

Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience 

  • Has created and maintained software in two or more modern software development languages. 
  • Experience with the design, development, support and maintenance of cloud first applications or toolchains, with expertise in designing fault-tolerant systems. 
  • Experienced in leveraging two or more service offerings from major cloud providers (preferably AWS), spanning databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB), compute services (ECS, EC2, EKS, Lambda), networking services (VPC, Route53, CloudFront), and/or asynchronous messaging services (SNS, SQS, Kinesis). 
  • Experience in applying and improving continuous integration and continuous delivery (CD/CD) practices. 
  • Experience in establishing observabilities (logging, tracing, monitoring/alerting) for production workload to guarantee correct level of software reliability and performance. 
  • Exceptional problem-solving skills and the ability to influence and lead technical decisions within the team and across the organisation. 
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in an engineering platform space. 

Desired Qualifications, Skills and Experience 

  • Experience in application development on Kubernetes ecosystems, leveraging technologies such as ArgoCD, Flux, Istio and/or Linkerd. 
  • Developed production-level platform toolchains or services using TypeScript on Node.js and/or Golang to enable other teams to focus more on application development. 
  • Experienced in maintaining and developing internal developer portals like Backstage, including proficiency with frontend technologies such as ReactJS. 
  • In-depth expertise in observability using open standards like OpenTelemetry, along with experience leveraging various features of Datadog. 
  • Passionate in internal technical community building and developer experience advocacy. 

Additional Information

Perks and benefits 
At SEEK we offer: 

  • Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role. 
  • The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year 
  • Casual dress – every day 

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 with 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

Top Skills

Kubernetes
The Company
Cremorne, Victoria
2,922 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1997

What We Do

SEEK is a global leader in employment marketplaces, solving real problems for our customers and connecting the right people with the right work. Our platforms are used by approximately 60 million candidates worldwide, we have relationships with over 450,000 hirers and exposure to around 900 million people, which means we really know the markets we are operating in. With an international presence that spans Australia, New Zealand, South-East Asia, Brazil and Mexico, your career can take you in many directions at SEEK.

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