Golang Job: Platform Engineer

We’re seeking a talented Environments tech lead with a passion for creating the best workplace for engineers. This is an opportunity to be in a critical role in the way we shape our engineering culture and great products to our customers.

• Technical Lead for Environments with skills in platform engineering

• Passion for automation and helping engineers

• Responsible for improving software delivery through tools, practices and engineering culture

• Using data to drive enhanced developer experience and continuous improvement

• Develop and implement strategies to enhance developer experience

• Collaboration with feature teams to ensure platform engineer practices are integrated into development

• Establishing Release Engineering best practices

• Develop strategies and implement practices that provide modern test environments, including capacity, performance and load testing

• Responsibility for leading the team focused on environment sustainability, performance and ongoing health

• Developing and implementing strategies to automate provisioning, configuration and managing environments

• Help achieve the goal of ‘push on green’ for deployments

Skills required:

• Strong experience in software engineering

• Excellent understanding of modern software development practices, tools and technologies

• Proven track record in automating test environments

• A passion for getting things done, balancing short- and long-term needs

• Influence and technical leadership capabilities to drive change in environments, manage stakeholders and get alignment cross functionally

• Experience integrating Engineering processes, systems, and tools to ensure support healthy dev, non-prod, and staging environments

• Hands on knowledge and experience with applying best practices to environments (e.g. Security and observability, kubernetes, ephemeral environments)

• Experience with implementing quality, capacity, performance, load tools and practices with strong focus on automation

• Strong DevOps fundamentals with preference for Java, Golang, Microservices and other cloud technologies

What’s in it for you:

• This is an opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping Engineering for Macquarie Bank

• Enjoy the satisfaction of making a difference and being part of a team that drives positive change in the bank and the industry

• Be part of a forward-thinking organisation that embraces new technologies and modern engineering practices

• Be part of a team that deeply values diversity and creates space for you to be your best, in a modern & inclusive environment with a strong focus on employee experience

• Being hands-on with the latest cloud technologies including Google Cloud to tackle interesting banking and finance problems

• Ongoing professional development and free technical certification

If this role sounds like the right opportunity to further your career, please apply via the link!

About Macquarie

A career at Macquarie means you’ll have the opportunity to develop and utilise new skills, explore interesting fields and do challenging work that will impact the lives of people around the world—whether it’s accelerating the green energy transition, helping sustain global food supplies, financing social housing projects or investing in essential infrastructure. At Macquarie, we’re empowering people to innovate and invest for a better future.

Our size and international presence means your work can take you anywhere—across business groups, disciplines, sectors and borders. With 19,200+ employees and offices in 34 markets around the world, we’re a truly global organisation.

You’ll be supported by a diverse team where the unique perspectives, ideas and experiences that all of our people bring are valued. You’ll be empowered to address unmet needs in our communities whilst advising and investing alongside our clients and partners. Working with us, you’ll have the opportunity to make a difference.

Macquarie is a global financial group providing clients with asset management, retail and business banking, wealth management, leasing and asset financing, market access, commodity trading, renewables development, specialist advisory, capital raising and principal investment.