Cloud Engineer (Remote in AU)

Budgetly

21d•Remote

About The Position

This is a senior backend engineering role with ownership of our DevSecOps and platform reliability capability. You'll spend the majority of your time contributing to product development, while dedicating part of your week to the cloud infrastructure, security, automation and reliability foundations that enable the team to ship safely. You'll be our go-to engineer for AWS, CI/CD and DevSecOps.

Requirements

Deep hands-on cloud expertise. You've built and operated production-grade cloud infrastructure yourself.
A security-first mindset. You think about IAM, secrets, and vulnerabilities as part of the build, not an afterthought bolted on at the end.
Demonstrated senior-level experience as a backend/software engineer, with significant hands-on DevOps and SecOps responsibility
Strong production experience with AWS, including Lambda, DynamoDB, ECS Fargate and EventBridge
Hands-on production experience using AWS CDK for Infrastructure-as-Code
Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
Experience working with PostgreSQL in production environments
Observability experience, including CloudWatch and tools such as Sentry and OpenTelemetry
Strong security engineering practices across vulnerability management, secrets management, IAM/access control and audit/compliance logging
Experience with containerisation and orchestration, including Docker and ECS Fargate
Incident response and troubleshooting skills across distributed systems
Ability to operate autonomously at a senior level and set technical direction with minimal oversight
Full Australian working rights
Must be located in Australia

Nice To Haves

You'll thrive here if you're a senior backend engineer who enjoys building product but also wants meaningful ownership of the infrastructure, automation, security and reliability behind it.
You'll have the autonomy to shape how we approach DevSecOps and platform reliability while remaining hands-on in product engineering.

Responsibilities

Design, build and ship product features using our product and coding agents
Own and continuously improve our AWS infrastructure across compute, networking, storage and IAM
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
Manage and evolve our infrastructure using AWS CDK
Embed security controls into the software delivery lifecycle, including vulnerability scanning, secrets management, access control and audit logging
Build and operate services using technologies including Lambda, DynamoDB, ECS Fargate, EventBridge and Aurora PostgreSQL
Own observability and production reliability using CloudWatch, Sentry and OpenTelemetry
Lead troubleshooting and incident response across application and infrastructure layers, including root-cause analysis and prevention, leveraging Linear or other automation solutions
Establish practical AWS, security and reliability standards across the engineering team
Monitor and improve platform reliability, capacity and performance
Balance security, reliability, cost and delivery speed pragmatically
Share your expertise and help strengthen cloud, DevSecOps and reliability practices across the engineering team