Staff Engineer, Platform

A LITTLE ABOUT US

Shippit is Australia’s best connected shipping software. Logistics infrastructure is a sophisticated beast, and we’re not only improving the experience for everyone involved, we’re impacting the planet in a positive manner: deliveries made through our platform are already 100% Carbon Neutral. Proudly Australian founded, we’re truly global in our approach and have the benefit of being a free moving scaleup with the security of impacting a growing industry that needs some love and attention.

THE ROLE

As a Staff Engineer, Platform at Shippit, you will will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing our infrastructure platform, working alongside other senior DevOps profesionals and the broader Engineering team to deliver a world class product to our customers.

As part of the Engineering team you will have a direct impact on our customers, by improving the platform reliability and up-time and enabling our cross-functional teams to deliver new features faster, and more securely.

DAY TO DAY

• Collaborate and support product teams by building a platform or solutions that help the success of the product
• Design and implement infrastructure as code
• Share and learn infrastructure and other knowledge with product teams
• Design and implement build tools, services and ways to enhance the developer experience
• Monitor and collect appropriate information to help us understand our infrastructure, applications and overall health of the business
• Understand and help create appropriate SLO/SLA for product teams with the 4 key metrics ideas in mind
• Design and implement Cloud solution that focuses on availability, security, reliability and performance 
• Production support, root cause analysis and post-mortem
  

WHAT YOU BRING

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience with Infrastructure as code testing tools.
• Experience with Container and container orchestration such as Kubernetes and EKS.
• Experience with Cloud Computing Platform like AWS.
• Experience or understanding in cloud-native architecture and concepts like availability, security, reliability and cost.
• Knowledge of what great CI/CD looks like.
• Knowledge of what good logging and monitoring looks like.
• Programming and TDD experience, in a scripting language like Python, Go, Ruby etc.
• Comfort in practicing XP disciplines daily.
• Experience using DSCM like Git.
• Skills in production support.
• Open to new ideas and not scared to experiment with new concepts.
  

LIFE AT SHIPPIT

• Flexible hybrid - ability to mix your working week between The Shippit office and your home office
• We are all builders - we share our successes! Be rewarded with our Employee Share Option Plan
• Family & paw friendly - generous parental leave policy and pet friendly office
• Be healthy - Wellbeing Policy with strong focus on whatever makes you feel good from inside out.
• Fuel your growth journey - Unlocking your potential with a blend of in person and online learning and development opportunities
• Be comfortable - Casual Friday everyday!
• We love to have fun - Team outings, weekly lunches, team events, loaded pantry and the list goes on…

FEEL VALUABLE

Join our high-performance culture at Shippit where you can make a difference. We’re on a mission that needs the right #goodhumans to help make ship happen!

Shippit actively supports a diverse workforce at all levels of the company and we all embody the core values that make our business unique. We foster a culture of inclusion at Shippit and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work. Our mantra is to make ship happen, every single day.

We’re a phenomenal place to work, and we can back that up. Shippit’s been ranked as #6 Best Place to Work by AFR in 2023. It doesn’t stop there, we have a whole bunch of accolades we earnt over the years which we are super proud of.

Watch this - Culture at Shippit

Our recruitment process - we don't like to complicate things

1. Phone screening - nice and simple to start, let’s get to know each other.
2. Hiring Manager Interview - impress your potential new Manager.
3. Technical/ Functional Interview - let your skills do the talking.
4. Values Interview - have you got what it takes to be a Shippster?

Get in touch

Apply now, and let's create something extraordinary!