Senior Staff Engineer - Marketplace Services

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.

The Team

Join the Marketplace Services team as we evolve from a service provider into a strategic platform enabler. Our mission is to deliver trustworthy, shared data and platform services that power APAC Candidate, Hirer, and AI teams—creating lasting value for customers.

We build and steward the core platforms used across the SEEK Marketplace and connect teams across the SEEK Group to our online ecosystem. Today, our remit includes services like Jobs, Profile, Apply, Identity, and Notifications, alongside essential back-office capabilities.

This is a transformational moment for SEEK. We’re laying the foundations for the next decade of marketplace innovation—solving complex, high-scale problems with direct business impact and measurable customer outcomes.

If you’re excited by platform thinking, scale, and collaboration, you’ll thrive here. We enable organisational success by delivering scalable, efficient platform solutions that help product teams move faster, with confidence.

The Opportunity

As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will set technical direction, own critical architectures, and enable teams at scale across the SEEK Marketplace.

• Shape the vision and technical roadmap for our Marketplace Developer Platform, defining composable, resilient interfaces and contracts that scale globally and are a joy to use.

• Lead the unification of our Single Identity Platform, setting standards for authentication, authorization, and personalization, and guiding end-to-end migration and adoption.

• Drive the modernization of our Notification System architecture, establishing event-driven patterns, reliability/SLOs, and delivery pathways that enable meaningful Candidate–Hirer conversations.

• Own end-to-end architecture for Profile, Apply, and Jobs services, making principled design decisions, managing technical risk, and guiding teams through high-impact, multi-quarter initiatives.

• Accelerate autonomy for Candidate, Hirer, and AI teams by delivering developer-centric self-service capabilities, documentation, and golden paths that remove friction and improve delivery velocity.

• Act as the senior technical escalation point, mentoring Staff Engineers, influencing cross-domain decisions, and ensuring our platforms are secure, observable, and cost-effective.

You’ll translate business goals into clear technical objectives, KPIs, and SLOs across Profile, Apply, Jobs, Identity, and Notifications, setting reliability targets and operating standards while managing risk and trade-offs. You’ll define and evolve integration contracts, versioning, and deprecation plans so teams can adopt changes safely and incrementally across APAC, backed by golden paths, SDKs, and reference implementations that reduce time-to-first-value and lift delivery velocity.

You’ll lead technical discovery to de-risk architecture choices and turn findings into sequenced roadmaps, while driving platform health through simplification, cost efficiency, and security-by-default measured against agreed technical health metrics. You’ll align patterns and decisions through cross-domain forums and ADRs/RFCs, mentor Staff and Senior Engineers in system design and operational excellence, and communicate progress and ROI to technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure trust and sustained adoption.

• Proven track record designing and evolving scalable, distributed platforms that serve millions of users with high availability, performance, and security.

• Demonstrated ability to set technical direction across multiple teams, assess and adopt emerging technologies pragmatically, and make architectural decisions that shape company-wide engineering.

• Deep engineering background spanning full‑stack development, cloud‑native architectures, and event‑driven systems, with hands-on ownership of services end to end.

• Established history of defining and embedding engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural patterns that lift team productivity and quality at scale.

• Strong operational leadership, including SLO design, monitoring and observability, incident response, capacity planning, and continuous optimisation for cost, reliability, and resilience.

• Recognised mentor and multiplier who grows technical leaders, develops Staff/Senior Engineers, and builds healthy engineering communities.

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.