Job Description The Team Part of Engineering Enablement in Engineering Platforms, the Developer Experience team exists to unlock the full potential of every engineer at SEEK. We craft tools, systems and experiences that aim to reduce friction across the delivery journey, so teams can move from idea to production faster, learn sooner, and focus more on delivering value. We're looking for someone with: A product mindset for internal tools, you treat internal platforms like consumer products, prioritising internal developer experience and validating solutions with fellow engineers; Empathy-driven problem solving, you're genuinely bothered by engineering friction and tedious tasks, and you naturally look for ways to fix pain points you see others experiencing; Systems thinking, you think beyond the task at hand, can identify bottlenecks and articulate the ripple effect of improvements across the engineering org; Future thinking, you’re happy working at the frontier of the fast-evolving space of AI augmented engineering and are excited to help shape the way SEEK does software engineering during this pivotal industry transformation. As a Staff Engineer at SEEK, you will set the technical direction and raise the engineering bar across cross-functional squads. You will be a trusted technical authority — shaping architecture, driving best practices, and ensuring systems are reliable, scalable, and fit for the future. Working within SEEK's APAC matrix structure, you will collaborate with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Data Engineers, and multidisciplinary squad members across the Candidate, Hirer, and Platform domains. You will lead technical outcomes end-to-end, from architecture decisions through to production, and champion a culture of engineering excellence. Beyond delivery, you will actively grow the capability of engineers around you - mentoring, modelling best-practice behaviour, and contributing to SEEK's broader communities of practice. This is a role for a technically deep, influential engineer who is excited to shape how SEEK builds world-class technology solutions. Key Responsibilities: Lead the technical design and delivery of complex, cloud-first software solutions Shape and evolve golden paths, self-service tooling, and internal platforms so teams can ship safely and quickly without reinventing the wheel. Define and uplift engineering standards (patterns, guardrails, templates, and docs) so the easy way to build is also the right way Drive platform health improvements to ensure systems are reliable, resilient, and performant Guide and mentor engineers at multiple levels, lifting technical capability across squads Champion secure coding practices, CI/CD pipelines, and Agile delivery rituals Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents, providing operational and on-call support Represent DevEx and platform engineering in SEEK’s communities of practice and across APAC - advocating for measurable improvements to how we build software.
