Remote Senior Platform Engineer

Description:

• Lyka is an Australian pet wellness company focused on improving the health and lifespan of pets by providing nutritionally balanced, wholefood meals.
• The company has served 40 million meals to pets in Australia and aims to expand its product range and enter new markets.
• They are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join their internal Platform team and support the delivery of pet food to customers.
• The role involves contributing to a new e-commerce platform, transitioning to a microservices architecture, and enhancing technical skills across the engineering team.
• The Senior Platform Engineer will play a key role in deploying services on AWS, building CI/CD pipelines, using Node.js, ensuring observability in a microservices environment, and mentoring engineering squads.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills are essential for this role.

Requirements:

• Significant experience deploying services on AWS, including ECS, Fargate, EC2, ALB, RDS, Lambda, and IAM.
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure as code, ideally CDK & CloudFormation.
• Experience with building and optimizing CI/CD delivery pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar.
• Development experience using Node.js (TypeScript).
• Familiarity with observability in a microservices environment using tools like CloudWatch & Honeycomb.
• Solid networking & network security skills, including VPC, security groups, TCP/IP, HTTP, and DNS.
• Ability to mentor and convey DevOps best practices to engineering squads.
• Strong collaboration skills to enhance the knowledge and capabilities of the engineering team.

Nice to have:

• Experience with AWS security and compliance services.
• Experience integrating security processes and tooling into the software development lifecycle.

Benefits:

• Opportunity to work in a fast-growing start-up and experience the challenges of sustaining hyper-growth.
• Growth and Development opportunities with an annual L&D budget for personal development.
• Work for a sustainability-focused company that is carbon-negative and plastic-negative.
• Be part of a diverse top-talent team from various backgrounds and geographies.
• Paid parental leave, miscarriage leave, and additional leave for long-term employees.
• Wellbeing assistance and tools for mental and physical wellbeing.
• Flexible working arrangements, including work-from-home allowance and pet-friendly offices.
• Pupper parent support with flexible arrangements, discounts, and financial allowance for pet care.