Lead Engineer

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About the role The Lead Engineer supports the Engineering Manager and the wider engineering team to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of Envato's underlying infrastructure. They will help the team think long‑term about sustainable platform growth, drive infrastructure best practices, and uplift infrastructure skills across both the platform team and wider engineering organisation.

What you’ll be doing

Leading

Driving initiatives to improve reliability, performance and security

Educating the team so that they have the knowledge and skills to deliver reliable, performant and secure systems

Ensuring we're improving continuously and learning from our incidents and near‑misses

Communicating the strategy and vision to the team to ensure alignment

Infrastructure Engineering & Architecture

Design, build, and provision new infrastructure to support new products, initiatives and solve problems

Uses software development skills to create software that integrates infrastructure with services and APIs

Mentoring

Reviews code quality and coaches Engineers directly.

Shares insights and feedback with Engineering Manager

Availability

Works to increase the mean‑time‑between‑failures and decrease the mean‑time‑to‑repair of public‑facing systems

Monitoring

Contributes to the improvement of the monitoring and measurement systems that support our operational scale and continuous delivery

Operations

Helps engineering teams to operate the systems required to deliver their products.

Is able to think ahead to solve operational problems before they become critical.

Emergency Response

Takes part in the roster to support the site after normal office hours

Troubleshoots live production issues

Facilitates the response to emergency situations

Reviews incidents and makes recommendations based on lessons learned

Performance, Efficiency & Latency

Contributes to the measurement techniques that assist in the performance tuning of the applications stack

Use the monitoring systems to help maintain application performance at acceptable levels

Recommends and implements performance improvements across the stack

Security & Risk

Participates in the ongoing process to identify and mitigate risk in Envato systems

Change Management

Participates in the development and maintenance of our applications and infrastructure

Provides support and advice to engineering teams delivering changes to production

Capacity Planning

Uses our monitoring to advise on capacity requirements

About you Essential

Has automated failover scenarios

A commitment to continual learning

Has provided a positive contribution to both operations‑focused and development‑focused work

Contributes positively to a team through both synchronous and asynchronous communication

Has built and maintained cloud‑based applications and infrastructure

Demonstrable knowledge of caching techniques

Has worked with CDN providers and or DDoS mitigation services to improve service performance and reliability

Has worked in a culture of shared responsibility between software developers and infrastructure specialists

Linux administration

Monitoring and logging tools

Passion for and experience in best practice systems operations tools and techniques

Public and private cloud‑hosted infrastructure

SQL Database management

Supporting a large web‑based application with global traffic

Has worked with tools and frameworks for automating infrastructure

Preferred

Has built self‑healing systems

Has automated testing of failure scenarios

Has measurably improved the resilience of systems

Experience with AWS

Experience with CloudFlare

Experience with tools including Datadog, Rollbar and Sumologic

Experience in other agile environments

Application development experience

MySQL performance tuning and troubleshooting expertise (in Aurora a bonus)

Security and Risk identification, assessment and mitigation

The ability to provide security and risk assessment and actions for a large e‑Commerce site

Experience with Cloudformation, Terraform, and the AWS CDK

Life at Envato • Flexible Working: remote‑first across Australia or New Zealand with flexibility for you to manage work and life as you need

• Work from Anywhere: apply to work in another location for up to 3 months per calendar year.

• Connection Budget: an annual budget to connect with the team IRL where and when possible.

• Learning Budget: study leave and an annual budget for you to put towards your learning and development.

• Home Office Allowance: a contribution towards your set‑up and a monthly allowance to support work from home costs.

• Wellbeing: access to a holistic assistance program that provides support in many areas of life and health.

• Volunteer Leave: 2 days per calendar year to volunteer and give back to the community.

• Parental Leave: 20 weeks paid primary carer leave, and 6 weeks paid secondary carers leave.

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