Senior Platform Engineer

About us

Orkestra Energy is an Australian-based software startup that is revolutionising the way energy projects are deployed. Our SaaS software helps users deploy new energy projects, such as solar, batteries, and electric vehicles, by allowing customers to automatically identify the “best” financially feasible scenarios out of thousands of possible options.

We are the market leader in Australia; most tier 1 and 2 energy and solar companies working in commercial and industrial sector use and love our software!

Visit our website to read our story

 

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our growing engineering team. Reporting to the Head of Engineering, you are expected to collaborate closely with people across the business, particularly Engineering Leads and the Founding Engineer.

This role requires a product-led, forward-thinking approach, as you will be instrumental in driving the continuous innovation and improvement of our platform and cloud infrastructure. You will also work directly in supporting Orkestra’s entry and rapid growth in international markets.

 

In your first 12 months you may…

• Collaborate with engineering teams to design and build simple, secure, and stable systems that can support continual change
• Manage cloud services such as databases, storage, messaging, and networking components
• Implement monitoring, alerts and observability dashboards for distributed systems
• Figure out how to best provision and support multi-region deployments of our existing infrastructure (data storage, authentication, APIs, CDNs, 3rd party integrations, data pipelines etc)
• Manage and participate in on-call rotation, incident response and post mortem investigations
• Support leadership in guiding the organisation to successful GDPR compliance (the technical and process-based aspects)
• Build the foundations of a data processing platform including data integrations, ingest pipelines, and ETL pipelines
• Improve and maintain internal developer tooling or CICD pipelines

 

Technology we use and teach

• TypeScript, Vue2, Vue3, React
• Python, FastAPI, Pydantic
• Postgres, SQLAlchemy
• AWS, CDK
• GitHub Actions, Cloudflare
• Auth0, Stripe, Segment, Hubspot
• Jira, Notion

 

About You

• You’re a technical leader with demonstrated expertise in Platform Engineering and/or SRE.
• An excellent collaborator, you work closely with the Founding Engineer, Engineering Leads, product engineers and product managers to understand their context and co-design appropriate solutions which balance feature velocity and platform health.
• You’re keen to gain deep technical expertise on the services we operate (e.g., knowing what tech debt needs to be addressed, managing maintenance load, evolving architecture).
• You are passionate about engineering excellence, systems architecture, and meeting non-functional requirements, but also deeply pragmatic - you know when to fix a problem vs when to let a particular fire burn (and can explain “why” to other people).
• Self-motivated and can work independently, you take the initiative to ensure that you have everything you need to work efficiently and call for support when required.
• You are capable of participating in prioritising and planning work to aid the goals of the business.
• You’re happiest leading by example, working in close partnership with leadership to foster an inclusive, collaborative and positive engineering culture

 

Ideally you have…

• Minimum 8 years of experience, with at least 2+ years in a similar role
• Experience with one or more coding languages, including Python
• Experience using IaC to provision a variety of AWS services (VPCs, subnets, security groups, IAM, lambdas, load balancers, data storage, secrets management)
• Experience with serverless architectures
• Prior experience rolling out instrumentation, monitoring, log aggregation and observability dashboards (SaaS or self-hosted) to an organisation, to ensure system reliability, performance and security
• Clear, concise written and spoken communication. As a remote-first team this is particularly important!
• Experience or desire to work in a seed stage startup

 

Why Orkestra?

At Orkestra Energy, we are committed to making a big impact and doing something exciting and disruptive in the energy industry. We offer a competitive salary, opportunities for professional growth and development, and the chance to be part of a growing team that is shaping the future of renewable energy.

Diversity & Inclusion are a key aspects of Orkestra’s success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and our team is composed of people with different strengths, experiences and backgrounds. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also age, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity and many other parts of one’s identity.

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our hiring team to assess your application.

 

To view more visit our careers page at https://www.orkestra.energy/.