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 Senior Platform Engineer Platform you will set direction and provide technical leadership across Shippit’s platform. You’ll work with experienced engineers and product teams to simplify, consolidate, and scale our technology, driving cross-team adoption and accelerating product delivery.
This role is not just about infrastructure. You’ll shape the future of Shippit’s platform and infrastructure, improving reliability, performance, and developer experience. While ensuring our investments deliver growth and business value.
DAY TO DAY
- Partner with our Product and Engineering teams to deliver platform solutions that accelerate our product builds and releases.
- Drive consolidation and simplification of our technology choices, ensuring that the technology investments we choose deliver maximum value.
- Champion aligned autonomy, helping refine and embed Shippit’s technology vision across teams.
- Design and implement infrastructure as code to build, scale, automate and deliver our platform.
- Act as the domain experts for our infrastructure and share that knowledge with other teams and internal stakeholders.
- Design and implement tooling to enable self service and enhance developer experience.
- Use monitoring and observability tooling to help us understand our infrastructure, applications and the overall health of the business.
- Champion good practices, continuous improvement, technical excellence - from improving response times to engaging with teams to set SLAs
- Design and implement cloud solution that focuses on availability, security, reliability and performance
- Production support, root cause analysis and post-mortem
WHAT YOU BRING
- A number of years experience supporting SaaS products at a senior level, responsible for deploying products and features autonomously.
- Experience in using Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Experience in using and integrating testing tools across the platform lifecycle, (e.g. Playwright, k6, Checkov, E2E testing frameworks and related automation tooling).
- Container and container orchestration experience such as Kubernetes or Docker.
- 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.
- Solid experience with monitoring and logging solutions (i.e Datadog, Cloudwatch).
- Programming and TDD experience, with a language such as Node.js, Go, Ruby, etc.
- Fiercely collaborative, biased to openness and candour, a predisposition to pairing and delivering incremental value.
- Experience using code management repositories like Git.
- 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
- Phone screening - nice and simple to start, let’s get to know each other.
- Hiring Manager Interview - connect with your potential new Manager.
- Technical/ Functional Interview - let your skills do the talking.
- Values Interview - have you got what it takes to be a Shippster?
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Apply now, and let's create something extraordinary!
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What We Do
Powering better shipping for APAC's leading retailers including Target, Cotton On, Nike and more, Shippit’s multi-carrier shipping technology helps retailers ship smarter, optimise their fulfilment and share better post-purchase experiences. We believe in a future where logistics infrastructure is connected through our technology to reduce waste and provide delightful delivery experiences. We’re on a mission that needs the right humans to help make that happen. Our 7 core values haven’t changed since launch, and we embrace and celebrate these values in our day-to-day. We love to push the envelope to break through old norms, make good sh**t taking passion and pride in our work, have a laugh through the good and challenging times and, we are good humans - we have heart and want to improve the world we live in whilst having fun along the way. We’re a great place to work and we can back that up. Shippit’s been ranked as #9 in Linkedin’s Hottest Startups to work at in 2021. We have a high-performance culture where everyone can make a difference. We have an overriding focus on wellness and are committed advocates for mental health awareness and gender pay equality & we’re committed to supporting and nurturing our team with perks like flexible work arrangements, above industry-standard parental leave and so much more!
