Staff Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Atomi's growing Engineering team as a Staff Platform Engineer, leading platform strategy and enabling feature teams through modern infrastructure. You will build and maintain scalable infrastructure, design CI/CD pipelines, partner with feature squads, establish best practices, and mentor engineers. This role requires expertise in cloud-native infrastructure, containerization, infrastructure-as-code, and observability solutions. Atomi offers tailored flexibility, generous leave, location independence, growth opportunities, wellbeing benefits, parental support, and regular social events. Apply with your resume, portfolio link, and any insights you'd like to share.

Requirements

• Expertise in designing and implementing cloud-native infrastructure and developer platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Strong knowledge of AWS services and architecture patterns for secure, scalable applications
• Extensive experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS)
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation) and automated deployment pipelines
• Experience implementing observability solutions including monitoring, logging, and alerting (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
• A security-first mindset with knowledge of cloud security best practices and compliance requirements
• Ability to balance immediate engineering needs with long-term platform health
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative approach to solving complex technical challenges
• Proven track record of mentoring engineers and elevating technical practices across teams
• Comfort working in evolving environments and transforming complex systems incrementally
• All applicants must hold Australian working rights

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable infrastructure and developer tools that enable feature teams to ship with confidence
• Design and implement reliable CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code solutions, and observability systems
• Partner with feature squads to understand their platform needs and develop solutions that accelerate their delivery
• Establish best practices for cloud infrastructure, security, and operational excellence across Atomi
• Mentor engineers across teams on infrastructure, deployment strategies, and platform capabilities
• Champion resilient architecture, performance optimisation, and security standards throughout the engineering organisation
• Drive continuous improvement in our development workflow through automation and self-service platform capabilities

Benefits

• Tailored flexibility : Enjoy work-life balance with hours that adapt to your needs, whether for university, family or personal time
• Generous leave : Experience unlimited paid leave options as a permanent team member
• Location Independence : Work from Sydney, interstate or wherever you find inspiration
• Growth and development : Use ongoing opportunities to improve your skills and expand your knowledge
• Holistic wellbeing : Benefit from a comprehensive employee assistance program subscription and additional wellbeing leave, supporting your best self
• Parental support: Enjoy 14 weeks of paid leave for new parents, with additional leave specifically for birthing parents
• Regular social in-person and remote events: Including team sports competitions, trivia nights and themed annual events
• Atomi access : Enjoy free Atomi services for you and your family
• Onsite teams : Our Sydney office is ideally located in a central setting with cafes, shops and public transport nearby