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Sr Distributed Systems Engineer (DevOps)

New Zealand, Auckland💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-30 → 2026-10-01

Core

Design and maintain cloud infrastructure and automated systems for a distributed microservice architecture serving millions of users.

Role type

Senior IC distributed systems engineer (DevOps/Platform)

Builds

Cloud platform infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling for engineering environments

Domain

Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and platform engineering

Deliverable

infrastructure

Required skills

Kubernetes orchestration, AWS ecosystem, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD pipeline management, Python/TypeScript/Go/Bash, database administration (Postgres/MSSQL), observability stacks, security implementation

Preferred skills

Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd), high-availability database scaling, message queuing systems (Kafka/RabbitMQ), self-healing infrastructure tooling

Technologies

AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, EKS, Terraform, Python, TypeScript, Go, Bash, Docker, Istio, Linkerd, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenSearch, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI

Responsibilities

Design infrastructure for distributed architecture; Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines; Trace and resolve performance bottlenecks; Maintain highly available web and backend systems; Secure infrastructure at cloud and application layers; Establish infrastructure-as-code coverage; Develop tools to enhance developer productivity

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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