Staff Engineer (Engineering Observability)

About SEEK

SEEK’s portfolio of diverse businesses make a positive impact on a truly global scale. Our purpose is to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organisations succeed. We create world-class technology solutions to connect more people to relevant employment, education, small business and volunteer opportunities. We have a culture of high-performance in our workplaces and celebrate the diversity of our employees who contribute to the success of our organisation.

Life at SEEK

SEEK’s purpose is at the centre of everything we do. Our SEEK, which defines the way we work, is all about what makes us unique and a little bit different. Passion, Team, Delivery and Future are our principles that drive innovation and creativity. SEEK strives to support employee wellbeing by providing an amazing experience at work which led us to being named AFR BOSS Top 10 Best Places to Work in Technology (2021-2024). We are proud to work in an environment that's inclusive where everyone's unique ideas, experiences and perspectives are valued.

Our award-winning head office in Cremorne (just a 4 min walk from Richmond station) provides an exceptional space to collaborate with colleagues. The building provides sweeping views of the city, a games area, sit and stand desks at every workstation, modern end-of-trip facilities and Thursday night drinks which gives our people an opportunity to connect in a social setting.

The team

Our Engineering Observability team runs the brains behind how we understand our systems in real time—owning and evolving the observability platform that powers metrics, logs, traces, dashboards and alerting across the organisation. We turn raw telemetry into clear, actionable insights so product and platform teams can spot issues fast, debug confidently and continuously improve performance and reliability. Along the way, we design and build internal tools, opinionated “paved roads” and best practices for monitoring, logging and incident response, partnering closely with engineers to make world-class reliability simple, scalable and cost-effective.

About the role 

As a Staff Engineer in our Engineering Observability team, you will play a critical role in shaping how we understand, operate, and scale our systems. You’ll lead the design and evolution of our observability platform, bringing together metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting to deliver fast, reliable insights for engineering teams.

This is a high-impact role focused on setting technical direction and raising the bar for engineering excellence. You’ll define best practices, establish scalable patterns, and create paved paths that enable teams to effectively monitor and improve their services. Working closely with stakeholders across the organisation, you’ll help translate complex reliability and telemetry challenges into simple, scalable solutions—making high-quality, observable systems the default.

Responsibilities 

• Drive the execution of SEEK’s observability strategy, aligning initiatives to customer journeys and measurable business impact
• Define and embed SLI/SLO frameworks to strengthen service reliability and improve visibility into system performance
• Establish best-in-class standards for instrumentation, logging, tracing, and tagging across engineering teams
• Champion telemetry best practices by coaching and enabling teams to build observable systems from the ground up
• Elevate signal quality, alerting, and incident response to ensure faster detection and resolution of issues
• Partner closely with product and platform teams to integrate observability into the software development lifecycle
• Accelerate adoption through scalable tooling, clear playbooks, and hands-on technical enablement
• Lead strategic initiatives, providing technical leadership and influencing outcomes across multiple teams

Skills and experience 

• Deep expertise in observability principles, including SLIs/SLOs, telemetry design, and signal quality, with the ability to define and implement clear, opinionated standards
• Proven experience designing and evolving end-to-end telemetry architectures, including pipelines, OpenTelemetry, and platform integrations
• Strong influencing skills, with the ability to drive alignment across teams and build trust with engineers and stakeholders without formal authority
• Passion for elevating engineering practices through reusable patterns, frameworks, and practical guidance
• Hands-on experience with modern observability tooling (e.g. Datadog preferred, but not a must)
• Deep experience with OpenTelemetry and building scalable observability pipelines

At SEEK we offer:

• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
• Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days and Volunteer Days, as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Support for parents with 14 weeks paid primary carers leave and 2 weeks paid leave for partners
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year

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.

For this role, only those candidates with the eligible right to work will be considered.

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