Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Arkose Labs, a leading provider of bot detection and mitigation solutions, as a Platform Engineer in Australia. You will be responsible for enhancing the observability, scalability, reliability, and latency of Arkose's platform, working closely with application development teams. This role involves improving the OpenTelemetry-based observability stack, identifying and addressing architectural gaps, developing tooling and automation for adapting to changing attack patterns, and ensuring high uptime and volume for Arkose's services.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as an Platform Engineer or back-end engineer
• Strong experience at least one of: AWS, Azure
• Strong experience with high volume and high uptime services
• Experience with at least one of: Golang, Python
• Experience with Kubernetes and IaC frameworks like Terraform
• Experience with modern SaaS-based software stacks

Responsibilities

• Improving our OpenTelemetry-based observability stack to include more signals that can be acted upon
• Improving our reliability by identifying and addressing gaps in our architecture, services and tooling that have a potential to cause outage
• Working on tooling, automation and circuit breakers that help Arkose to adapt to changing attack patterns

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with ScyllaDB
• Experience with OpenTelemetry
• Experience with CDN providers

Benefits

• Competitive salary + Equity
• Flexible hardware options (e.g. Mac, Linux)
• Flexible working hours to support personal well-being and mental health
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program)