Melbourne | Full-time Help make software developers faster, more effective and better equipped to build great products.
We're looking for a Senior DevAx Engineer to improve the tools, platforms and engineering practices used by development teams across a large technology environment.
This is a hands‐on software engineering role focused on Developer Acceleration, with strong exposure to GitHub, AWS, Python, TypeScript and up-to-date development practices.
The role
You'll help shape and continuously improve the developer platform, working closely with engineering teams to make their day‐to‐day development experience better.
You'll be responsible for:
Improving developer productivity through better tools, platforms and processes
Evolving and maintaining a heavily utilised GitHub platform
Developing automation and tooling across AWS
Assessing and introducing new tools, technologies and capabilities
Providing technical guidance and hands‐on assistance to engineering teams
Helping teams adopt engineering best practices and become more self‐sufficient
Uplifting code quality and development standards
Working closely with Application Security, Cloud Platform and Engineering teams
Building APIs, integrations and automated solutions
Exploring how AI and emerging technologies can improve software development
Keeping the developer platform modern, scalable and continuously evolving
About you
You'll be a Senior Software Engineer / Developer with strong coding skills and a genuine interest in developer productivity and engineering excellence.
You'll ideally have:




Strong professional experience with GitHub and AWS
Excellent Python and TypeScript skills
A strong backend/software development background
Experience building APIs and integrations
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern development practices
Strong AWS experience across services such as EC2, ECS, S3, Lambda, RDS, VPC and CloudFormation
Experience with Docker/containerisation
Understanding of RESTful APIs, JSON and XML
Strong stakeholder communication skills
A passion for learning, experimenting with new technology and sharing knowledge with others
Why this role?
This is a great opportunity to work on technology that enables engineering teams across the organisation.
You'll get exposure to a wide variety of projects and technologies, working with teams across the organisation while remaining hands‐on technically.
Your work will directly influence how developers build, deploy and improve software.
If you're a strong software engineer who enjoys developer experience, automation, cloud technology and finding better ways to help engineers work, we'd love to hear from you.
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📌 Senior Devax Engineer – Developer Acceleration (Melbourne)
🏢 Salt
📍 Melbourne