Lead Cloud Engineer (.NET / Azure)

$160,000 – $180,000 per year, plus super Salary: $160,000 – $180,000 + Super, flex About Drawboard

Drawboard is building the Figma for PDF, a real time collaborative workspace used by millions globally across Windows, web, and iOS. We are a Melbourne based company working with global enterprise customers, including Toyota. As our platform grows and enterprise requirements increase, our cloud backend is becoming more strategic to the business. We are looking for a senior engineer who can help lead the next phase of our cloud evolution. The Role

We’re hiring a senior cloud engineer who can lead technically and help bring greater clarity and coordination to backend delivery as we scale. Our Azure based backend platform is becoming increasingly central to enterprise customers and product growth. We need someone who can stay hands‑on in the code while also assisting with architectural direction, improving planning discipline, and acting as a strong interface between engineering, product, and leadership. This is not a pure management role. It is a senior technical leadership role but needs to know how to work with all stakeholders including non-engineers. What You’ll Be Responsible For

Leading or assisting with designing and evolving our Azure cloud architecture Building and maintaining scalable cloud based backend services using .NET and C# Designing and delivering backend capabilities that integrate with enterprise systems and external platforms. Driving best practices in distributed systems, scalability, performance, and observability Providing technical leadership across backend initiatives Improving planning, sequencing, and coordination of backend work in partnership with product Reducing context switching and increasing delivery clarity for engineers Mentoring and supporting other backend engineers Contributing to infrastructure across Kubernetes, Redis, Cosmos DB, and related services What We’re Looking For

Experience

8+ years building production backend systems Demonstrated experience as a strong communicator across engineering and non-engineering stakeholders Deep experience with .NET and C# Strong hands‑on experience with Azure in production environments Experience designing and operating distributed systems Strong API design capability and understanding of scalable architectures Familiarity with containerised workloads and Kubernetes Leadership Qualities

Comfortable leading technical discussions and setting direction Able to bring structure and clarity to backend delivery Strong communicator who can work effectively with product, leadership, and non-engineers Able to balance long term architectural thinking with pragmatic execution Motivated to mentor and elevate the team around you Bonus

Experience in SaaS environments Exposure to enterprise customers Frontend experience, ideally React Why Join Drawboard

Significant ownership over backend architecture and technical direction A small, high capability team where your decisions have real impact Exposure to enterprise scale challenges while maintaining startup agility Hybrid work model based in Melbourne Competitive salary and long term growth opportunity If you are a senior cloud engineer ready to step into broader technical leadership, or already operating in a lead capacity and looking for greater ownership, we would love to hear from you.

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