Software Engineer
A$400,000 – A$800,000 / yr base salary
Posted 28 Jul 2026
Advertised as “Software Engineer (Site Reliability)”
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- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- On-Site
- Contract
- Full-time
- Visa sponsorship
- Offered
| Base salary | A$400,000 – A$800,000 / yr |
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About us
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We're building a new category of interactive entertainment powered by AI characters, image, video, and real-time experiences. We’re one of the most-visited AI products globally, serving millions of users every day.
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We work in-person in Sydney, Australia, and hire globally.
How we work
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User-first: We build what people want. We invest time to understand our users and focus on adding value instead of extracting value.
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High agency, high ownership: We own outcomes end-to-end. When something goes wrong, we take responsibility and fix it.
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Urgency: We prioritize ruthlessly, increase leverage, and move at an exceptional pace.
What you'll do
- You’ll be our first dedicated site reliability engineer, owning reliability and core platform decisions as we scale to hundreds of millions of users.
Example projects
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Improve uptime and reduce RTO across critical services.
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Orchestrate and harden GPU clusters serving millions of AI generations per day.
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Implement platform-wide observability (metrics, tracing, alerting) and enforce SLOs.
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Optimize AWS infrastructure and reduce cloud spend without sacrificing performance.
What you'll bring
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5+ years operating production systems at scale.
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Strong AWS experience (infra-as-code, high-scale compute, K8s/ECS or similar).
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Deep observability and incident response experience.
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CI/CD and deployment pipeline expertise.
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Familiarity with our tech stack: TypeScript, Next.js, React, TailwindCSS, tRPC, Postgres, Temporal, AWS.
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You write code and fix root causes, not just symptoms.
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Hunger to win. This is not going to be easy.
What we offer
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Top-of-market compensation with meaningful equity upside.