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As a Senior Platform Engineer, you'll build the cloud infrastructure, tooling and CI/CD pipelines that Pet Circle's engineering squads ship on, so they can deliver at speed on a platform they can trust. This is a building role, not a run-and-maintain one: you'll design for scale on Google Cloud Platform, automate what used to be manual, and own your area broadly. You’ll report to the Director of Technical Operations while partnering closely with the engineering squads, Staff Engineers and Tech Leads who build the product.
Build Pet Circle's cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform, designing for scale, reliability and security
Drive infrastructure-as-code with Terraform (Pulumi is transferable), so the environment is reproducible and auditable
Build, maintain and speed up the CI/CD pipelines the engineering squads deploy through
Containerise and run services with Docker
Own observability, monitoring, alerting and logging, so issues are understood before they reach customers
Embed with the engineering squads, understand their friction points, and build a platform roadmap that makes shipping easier
Strengthen Pet Circle's security and disaster recovery, security assessments, vulnerability remediation, identity and access (Google Identity Platform, JumpCloud or similar), and tested recovery objectives
Identify high-risk legacy components and plan their removal
Get our CI/CD, observability and security ready for the AI features going into the product
Support cloud cost efficiency, right-sizing and optimising GCP spend
Respond to production incidents and lead the follow-up, so the same problem doesn't happen twice
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Strong with Cloudflare, it's used heavily here, so little or no exposure is a real gap
You're already using AI in how you work and keen to do more, whether that's writing infrastructure code, debugging pipelines, analysing logs or generating runbooks.
Infrastructure-as-code in production with Terraform (Pulumi is transferable), including the messy parts like state management
CI/CD pipelines real teams deploy through, GitHub Actions (GitLab is transferable)
Hands-on with Docker (Kubernetes is fine but not required, we don't lean on it)
Knowledge of Python is preferred
You've built and improved security and disaster recovery, not just run tools, and least-privilege thinking comes naturally (JumpCloud and CrowdStrike experience is a plus)
An experienced engineer who's seen things go wrong and learned by doing, and who's energised by building the platform, not just running it
Comfortable in a lean team, owning broadly rather than specialising narrowly
You communicate clearly with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders, and partner well across teams
This is a Sydney-based role. Our office sits on top of Wynyard station, it's pet-friendly (of course), and we work flexibly, a mix of office and home. We believe spending time together in person is important for building strong relationships, collaborating effectively, moving quickly as a team, and having fun!
Heaps of development opportunities - lunch & learns, secondments & unlimited learning courses via Go1
Flexible working environment
Up to 50% employee discount
Product sample giveaways
Pawrental leave and wellbeing leave
Volunteer days for the causes you care about
Fitness corporate partnership
Why you'll want in
Looking after pets, and the pet parents who love them, is what gets us out of bed. That energy carries into how we work, and into what your days here would feel like.
You'll own your patch and have the room to act on it. We move fast and decide fast, and we'd rather test an idea and learn from it than sit on it. You'll have rich, real-time data at your fingertips to back your thinking, and the freedom to chase an opportunity the moment you spot one. The best idea wins, wherever it comes from.
What holds it together is what we stand for:
We're better together
We operate with humble hearts and hungry minds
Pets matter, so pets and pet parents always have a seat at our table
We're instinctively curious. Always
Everyone (& their pets) Welcome
We're better when we don't all think the same. Different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences make our work sharper and our days more interesting, so whoever you are, if this role excites you we'd love to hear from you, even if you don't tick every box. And if you need anything adjusted in the process to do your best, just say the word, we're happy to help.
Privately held Australian online pet retailer delivering food, medicines, supplies, and veterinary advice to pet parents.
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