Senior Staff Engineer (AIPS)

About SEEK

SEEK’s portfolio of diverse businesses make a positive impact on a truly global scale. Our purpose is to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organisations succeed. We create world-class technology solutions to connect more people to relevant employment, education, small business and volunteer opportunities. We have a culture of high-performance in our workplaces and celebrate the diversity of our employees who contribute to the success of our organisation.

Life at SEEK

SEEK’s purpose is at the centre of everything we do. Our SEEK, which defines the way we work, is all about what makes us unique and a little bit different. Passion, Team, Delivery and Future are our principles that drive innovation and creativity. SEEK strives to support employee wellbeing by providing an amazing experience at work which led us to being named AFR BOSS Top 10 Best Places to Work in Technology (2021-2024). We are proud to work in an environment that's inclusive where everyone's unique ideas, experiences and perspectives are valued.

Our award-winning head office in Cremorne (just a 4 min walk from Richmond station) provides an exceptional space to collaborate with colleagues. The building provides sweeping views of the city, a games area, sit and stand desks at every workstation, modern end-of-trip facilities and Thursday night drinks which gives our people an opportunity to connect in a social setting.

The team

The AI Platform Services (AIPS) teams build platforms and solutions that solve complex information problems and enable AI innovation across the SEEK Group. Our AI Platform Engineering teams provide shared infrastructure, governance, and reusable assets that empower AI and product teams to experiment safely, ship faster, and deliver intelligent experiences at scale.

Teams are cross-functional, multi-disciplinary squads operating within an APAC matrix organisational structure. We work in an Agile environment with regular standups, sprint ceremonies, and collaborative ways of working.

About the role 

As a Senior Staff Engineer at SEEK, you'll be part of a fast-paced and supportive environment where you can make a real difference. You'll work on complex challenges that have a direct impact on people's lives, helping us evolve our business and reach new heights.

This role is a senior technical specialist within our AI Platform Services (AIPS) Engineering teams, focused on AI data infrastructure. Reporting to the Head of Engineering, you will be the authority on centralised data platforms for AI/ML workloads, proactively understanding the problems across our AI teams, developing the strategy, advocating for solutions, and delivering outcomes that accelerate AI innovation across SEEK.

Responsibilities 

• Define and own the technical strategy for centralised AI data infrastructure across AIPS
• Design scalable data architectures for AI/ML workloads spanning ingestion, transformation, and serving
• Consult with our AI teams to deeply understand data needs and translate them into strategic platform solutions
• Drive data governance, quality, and consistency across AI/ML data pipelines
• Guide Staff Engineers and engineering teams on AI engineering best practices and patterns
• Partner closely with Architecture, Data Services, and Security on data platform decisions
• Advocate for and embed data engineering practices that reduce duplication and increase self-service capability
• Support the Head of Engineering in capacity planning, scoping, and prioritisation of AI platform work, while contributing to the broader AIPS engineering community through knowledge sharing and technical leadership

Skills and experience 

• Experience delivering data solutions to real-time ML systems, with a strong understanding of how data engineering overlaps with ML engineering
• Deep data engineering experience across pipelines, data modelling, feature engineering, and data governance at scale
• Strong infrastructure experience with data-focused services and Infrastructure-as-Code practices
• Python proficiency for data platform tooling, pipelines, and integrations
• Demonstrated experience defining and implementing technical strategy that drives cultural and organisational change in the data space, underpinned by a strong understanding of MLOps and the ML lifecycle
• Feature store and vector store implementation experience (or a demonstrated desire to build expertise in this space), along with MLOps or ML lifecycle experience spanning experiment tracking, model deployment, and training-serving consistency
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and cloud-agnostic data technologies, building self-service data capabilities for technical teams, and SRE or operational excellence experience for data platform systems

Permanent Perks
At SEEK we offer:

• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
• Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days and Volunteer Days, as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Support for parents with 14 weeks paid primary carers leave and 2 weeks paid leave for partners
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year

At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.

Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

For this role, only those candidates with the eligible right to work will be considered.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.