About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a robust DevOps focus to join our global engineering team, building and operating Collect, our in‑house platform at the heart of everything InDebted does. This position is based in our Sydney office on a hybrid basis (3 days per week in office), keeping you in close day‑to-day alignment with our engineering practices, standards, and the wider team.

You will design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure, delivery pipelines, and observability tooling that our product teams, and ultimately our customers and clients, depend on, while driving automation and AI to remove manual operational work. This role goes well beyond writing code: you are measured by the reliability and velocity you enable, the quality of your engineering, and how you raise the operational bar for the engineers around you.

How We Work

We have a lightweight process and a strong focus on knowledge sharing. Our teams are self‑organised and cross functional. We've gone all in on AI: we continuously trial new AI tools and train everyone across the team on getting the most out of them, Skills, agentic coding, and more. You'll deliver using the same practices, standards, and guardrails as the rest of the global engineering team, with a technical reporting line into engineering.

Guiding Principles

- Single source of truth: all work is tracked in Linear, all changes are in version control, and every system has a clear owning team.
- No special exceptions on quality: the same expectations on tests, observability, security, documentation, and code review apply to everyone; urgency does not justify "shadow" systems or shortcuts.
- Clear accountability, shared responsibility:



engineers own the outcomes of their work end to end; teams own platform integrity and long‑term architecture together.
- Bias to reuse and consolidate: prefer reusing or extending existing platforms and services over creating new ones; converge over time rather than diverge.
- Automation first: proactively identify and eliminate manual processes; AI and automation are first‑class priorities, not afterthoughts.

What You'll Do

Platform and infrastructure

- Design, build, and evolve the cloud infrastructure behind Collect using Infrastructure-as-Code, keeping it secure, scalable, and cost-effective.
- Contribute to architectural decisions and technical direction, ensuring systems are designed to be operable, observable, and maintainable from day one.
- Ship product features when the work calls for it, this is an engineering role first, with infrastructure as its centre of gravity.

Delivery engineering

- Own and improve our CI/CD pipelines so that every team can ship safely, quickly, and frequently.
- Reduce friction in the path to production, build tooling, guardrails, and paved roads that make the right way the easy way.

Reliability and incident ownership

- Build and champion observability across the platform, metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting that make production behaviour visible.




- Diagnose and resolve incidents, lead post‑incident reviews, and feed the learnings back into the platform as improved resilience and automation.

Automation and AI

- Proactively identify manual operational processes, deployments, workplace management, toil of any kind, and design and implement automation/AI to remove them.
- Treat using AI to reduce manual work as a first‑class priority.

Collaboration and mentoring

- Come to stakeholders with clear trade‑offs ("if I do X, Y slips by Z weeks") rather than waiting for instructions.
- Communicate solutions clearly, give thoughtful code review, and maintain a high standard of technical communication.
- Mentor other engineers and help raise the engineering bar through pairing, feedback, and knowledge sharing.

What We're Looking For

- Hands‑on experience using AI tools in your day‑to‑day engineering, and genuine enthusiasm for adopting new ones, this is central to how we work and matters more to us than any specific language or framework.
- At least five years of experience in software engineering, with significant hands‑on time in DevOps, platform, or SRE‑flavoured work.
- Strong experience with cloud infrastructure (we use AWS) and Infrastructure-as-Code, Terraform or similar.
- Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines, and a strong grasp of modern deployment practices, trunk‑based development, progressive rollouts, and fast, safe releases.
- A solid foundation in observability and production operations, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and post‑incident learning.
- Comfort operating with ambig

📌 Senior Software Engineer (Sydney)
🏢 InDebted
📍 Sydney