Lead Engineer

About Jobstreet by SEEK

SEEK operates market-leading online employment marketplaces, including Jobstreet and Jobsdb in Asia. SEEK has been helping people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and helping organisations succeed for over 25 years.

Founded and headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, SEEK has grown into a multinational technology company with over 3,300 employees and is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.

SEEK’s presence spans Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Additionally, SEEK has minority investments in employment marketplaces in China, South Korea and Bangladesh.

SEEK develops and applies innovative data and technology tools to facilitate high-quality matching and improve reliability of marketplace information.

In 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, SEEK was recognised as one of Australia’s Top Ten Places to Work in Technology in the AFR BOSS Best Places to Work awards. SEEK was also named a 5-Star Employer of Choice by HRD Asia in 2024 and won four accolades at TalentCorp’s Life at Work Awards 2023 in Malaysia.

Job Overview

As the Lead Engineer – Workload Hosting, you’ll play a key role in shaping and delivering SEEK’s cloud hosting platform that underpins our products and services. You’ll lead a talented engineering team responsible for building, running and evolving highly scalable, reliable and secure infrastructure on Kubernetes and AWS. This role blends technical leadership with people management—driving engineering excellence, platform reliability and a great developer experience across SEEK.

The Role

• Lead and mentor engineers to build and operate SEEK’s Kubernetes-based workload hosting platform.
• Oversee design, delivery and ongoing evolution of secure, reliable and cost-efficient cloud services.
• Collaborate with Product, Architecture and Security teams to align platform capabilities with SEEK’s strategy.
• Drive automation, observability and performance across platform operations.
• Embed best practices in software development, CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Foster a strong team culture focused on collaboration, learning and continuous improvement.

So, what we are looking for:

• Proven experience leading or managing engineering teams in cloud or platform environments.
• Deep technical expertise in Kubernetes, AWS and modern software delivery practices.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, automation and developer enablement.
• Skilled communicator and collaborator, able to influence across technical and non-technical groups.
• Experience applying engineering fundamentals with languages like Go or TypeScript.
• A growth mindset and passion for building reliable, scalable systems that empower developers.

Desired Values

• Aims high to deliver world-class results while caring deeply for people and teams.
• Acts with integrity, empathy and curiosity in every interaction.
• Values diversity of thought, collaboration and shared success.
• Strives for continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Encourages learning, experimentation and personal growth.
• Is motivated by SEEK’s purpose and takes pride in creating technology that helps people prosper.

At SEEK we offer:

• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• Support of flexible hybrid working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
• Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days
• SEEKer Support, a confidential service that offers employees up to six sessions with a mental health professional of your choice

At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.

Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.