Hybrid Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Posted 2 months ago

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About the role

  • Play a foundational role in shaping how we build, scale, and evolve our next-generation technology stack for Civica's products.
  • Define and evolve product engineering practices, tooling, and shared application architecture patterns.
  • Lead technical discovery, prototyping, and architectural alignment across teams contributing to our new platform.
  • Provide hands-on support to unblock teams, improve implementation quality, and resolve cross-team technical challenges.
  • Collaborate with product managers, engineering leaders, and other staff/principal engineers to shape delivery flow, team responsibilities, and ownership boundaries.
  • Act as a mentor and technical coach to engineers across the organisation.
  • Contribute to long-term architectural decisions that optimise for modularity, resilience, and operability.
  • Facilitate healthy architectural debate, consensus-building, and design governance.
  • Navigate ambiguity and help co-create the organisation’s path toward consolidated, high-quality delivery.

Requirements

  • Technical depth and breadth: Strong expertise in building, scaling, and evolving modern web applications—ideally across both front-end and back-end domains (e.g. .NET, C#, cloud-native platforms).
  • System design & problem-solving: Demonstrated ability to design and evolve architecture in complex, real-world systems.
  • Influence & collaboration: Builds trust across teams, facilitates alignment, and helps teams move forward without needing formal authority.
  • Delivery orientation: Understands how to balance engineering design with delivery constraints and business priorities.
  • Organisational thinking: Shapes engineering patterns that scale across teams and time—familiar with enabling or platform team models.
  • Nice to have: Experience with distributed systems and event-driven architecture.
  • Nice to have: Familiarity with modern CI/CD, observability, and quality automation practices.
  • Nice to have: Exposure to legacy system modernisation, refactoring, or product migration strategies.
  • Nice to have: Awareness of Team Topologies, Domain-Driven Design, or similar models for designing software and teams.

Benefits

  • We provide an inclusive, safe, and welcoming environment to all Civicans - there are heaps of opportunities to enable you to grow and be your best.
  • Giving culture - we encourage you to "give back" with benefits such as our Days of Difference leave where you can volunteer for a charity of your choice.
  • Flexible Work - Flexible work – we have the technology and tools to support you to work from home and come into our offices now and then to catch up and socialise with colleagues.
  • Opportunities to grow and be your best (career growth and development).

Job title

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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