Staff Infrastructure Platform Engineer

🔥 12 hours ago

🇦🇺 Australia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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GRIDSIGHT

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2020

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

⚡ Energy

Consulting • Logistics • Energy

GRIDSIGHT is a company that provides advanced analytics and data solutions for optimizing energy networks, particularly focusing on distributed energy resources (DER) and low-voltage network performance. The company offers features such as real-time analytics, automated reports, AI data predictions, and dynamic operating envelopes to help industry leaders improve grid visibility and performance. Their tools are designed to enhance the accuracy of network data, manage voltage and thermal constraints, and maximize DER hosting capacity. GRIDSIGHT's solutions are tailored to empower engineering, marketing, and design teams to efficiently manage energy network operations through data-driven insights. Their technology facilitates the proactive identification of network issues and the verification of installed capacity, ensuring compliance and operational excellence.

📋 Description

• Build and run metrics, tracing, logging and alerting platforms • Set observability patterns that enable product teams to own their observability • Evolve and consolidate deployment pipelines, release management and infrastructure-as-code • Own environment management and test infrastructure to shorten lead times and improve CI feedback • Design secure, cost-effective, multi-tenant, multi-region infrastructure across Australia, New Zealand and the US • Work with IT Ops on SOC 2 controls and platform-generated compliance evidence • Define SLOs and error budgets, improve incident response and learning, and participate in on-call • Improve developer experience through tools and abstractions that internal engineers adopt • Use AI-assisted development tooling to accelerate delivery • Mentor engineers and raise organisational standards for reliability, operability and developer experience • Run the platform as a product with clear interfaces, documentation and support • Set technical direction and own a multi-quarter platform roadmap • Shape cross-team decisions through proposals and collaboration • Identify high-leverage infrastructure problems and help establish the Infrastructure Platform team

🎯 Requirements

• ~8 or more years in software engineering, with recent work at Staff level (or clearly operating at it) in platform, infrastructure or SRE • Deep experience running cloud infrastructure in production, including compute, networking, storage, IAM and cost management • Strong infrastructure-as-code skills; AWS and Terraform preferred • Track record of building and operating observability platforms that teams rely on • Hands-on SRE practice: SLOs, error budgets, incident response and runbooks • Experience on a platform team in a product engineering organisation, running the platform as a product that teams adopt willingly • Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to set direction and drive outcomes without close supervision • Fluency in AI-assisted development tools, including agentic coding tools or LLM-assisted workflows • Technical knowledge of AWS cloud architecture, networking, compute, storage, security and cost optimisation • Infrastructure-as-code design and lifecycle, ideally Terraform • Containers and orchestration, specifically ECS • CI/CD pipeline design and release strategies such as blue-green, canary and progressive delivery • Observability systems: metrics, distributed tracing, log aggregation and alerting • Security fundamentals: IAM, network segmentation and secrets management • Multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure patterns

🏖️ Benefits

• Not specified in the posting