Job Description
About us------------
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At the company, we're redefining entertainment with AI. We're one of the fastest-growing startups globally, serving 20 million users in our first year. We're an in-person company based in Sydney, Australia.
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We're guided by a set of principles that are foundational to our work and drive every decision:
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+ User-first: We build things that people want. We invest time to understand our users and focus on adding value instead of extracting value.+ High agency, high ownership: We're responsible for the pieces we own, end-to-end. We own every mistake, figure out what went wrong, and fix it. We don't blame anyone or anything else.+ Urgency: This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance. We prioritize well, find ways to increase leverage, and move at an inspirational pace.
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What you'll do------------------
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You'll be our first dedicated site reliability engineer, owning reliability and core platform decisions as we scale to hundreds of millions of users.
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Example projects--------------------
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Improve uptime and reduce RTO across critical services.
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Orchestrate and harden GPU clusters serving millions of AI generations per day.
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Implement platform-wide observability (metrics, tracing, alerting) and enforce SLOs.
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Optimize AWS infrastructure and reduce cloud spend without sacrificing performance.
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What you'll bring---------------------
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5+ years operating production systems at scale.
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Strong AWS experience (infra-as-code, high-scale compute, K8s/ECS or similar).
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Deep observability and incident response experience.
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CI/CD and deployment pipeline expertise.
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Familiarity with our tech stack: TypeScript,



Next.js, React, TailwindCSS, tRPC, Postgres, Temporal, AWS.
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You write code and fix root causes, not just symptoms.
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Hunger to win. This is not going to be easy.
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What we offer-----------------
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Competitive compensation with meaningful upside.
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A company card for food, coffee, tools, and anything that helps you operate at a high level.
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Daily team lunch and dinner at the office.
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Unlimited workspace budget. Build your ideal setup.
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Real ownership and impact from day one.
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Based in Sydney and hiring globally. We sponsor visas and offer relocation assistance to help you make the move.
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How we think about comp---------------------------
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Our overarching philosophy is to raise the ceiling for our best performers, not the floor. We pay based on the value you add to the company.
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The range listed for this role is total comp: cash plus equity combined, with superannuation paid on top.
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We re-evaluate compensation every 6 months. Bonuses are backward-looking; raises are forward-looking.
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A bonus rewards work you've already done, like exceptional output or consistently performing above your level.
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A raise reflects that you've moved up. It resets your baseline to match the higher level you're now operating at.
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Our interview process-------------------------
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A quick phone call to learn about you and share more about our company.
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A technical interview, 1hr of system design, no live coding.
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A paid work trial, so you get a feel for what it's like to work with us.
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You get an offer, and we celebrate!
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Compensation Range: A$400K - A$800K
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📌 Software Engineer (Site Reliability) (New South Wales)
🏢 United States Digital Space
📍 New South Wales