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About the Role

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will lead the build of key technical projects that keep Deputy’s production platform reliable, safe, and recoverable, progressing the company mission of improving customers' business productivity, wage compliance, and employee satisfaction. You will be part of the Platform team, focusing on the reliability and security of system services and infrastructure, and collaborating with security and engineering leadership to build foundational systems and architecture.

Responsibilities

Lead the team that builds paved paths to enable other engineering teams to build secure and reliable services.
Make technical decisions and own the roadmap across platform reliability and infrastructure security, including observability, incident management, cloud & network security, and infrastructure vulnerabilities.
Encourage innovation and continuous improvement in reliability (alert hygiene, MTTR, DORA) and security (vulnerability remediation, hardening coverage).
Uphold high engineering, quality, and security standards, including encryption and DR/BCP execution.
Collaborate with other business parts to discover and estimate solution options for strategic initiatives.
Accountability for delivering technical solutions within estimated timeframes.
Operate in a get-things-done, value-demonstrating, iterative manner.
Influence and problem-solve with engineers to deliver high-quality outcomes, providing technical leadership and mentorship.
Contribute to driving standards, ways of working, and platform decision-making as a key member of the technical leadership team.
Act as a player-coach.

Requirements

Proven experience establishing a strong platform operations function from the ground up, including authoring incident response playbooks, defining SLOs/SLIs, and driving a culture of reliability.
Deep technical expertise in infrastructure security and site reliability for complex, highly isolated environments.
Hands-on experience securing Kubernetes clusters, implementing network policies for cell-based architectures, and translating InfoSec policies into automated infrastructure guardrails.
Experience with SAST & DAST, CI/CD pipelines, and associated security toolings (e.g. GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, Snyk).
Experience building and testing Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Plans in AWS across multiple regions.
Experience with authentication & authorization platforms, CIAM, OAuth2, OpenID, and ensuring high customer security posture.
Proven leadership in driving projects from concept to delivery, working cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and engineering teams.
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
6+ years of experience in DevSecOps.
2+ years of experience as a lead/staff engineer.

Skills

Problem-solving
Balancing tradeoffs
Platform reliability
Infrastructure security
Observability platform
Incident management
Cloud security
Network security
Infrastructure vulnerabilities
Alert hygiene
MTTR
DORA
Vulnerability remediation
Hardening coverage
Encryption at rest
Encryption in transit
DR/BCP execution
SAST
DAST
CI/CD pipelines
GitHub
GitLab
Jenkins
Snyk
AWS
Authentication platforms
Authorization platforms
CIAM
OAuth2
OpenID

Location

Sydney
Melbourne
San Francisco
London
Remote (United States)

Work Type

Hybrid
Remote

Experience Level

Lead
Staff Engineer
6+ years of experience in DevSecOps
2+ years of experience as a lead/staff engineer

Education Level

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Benefits

Flexible work policy
Work-from-home stipend
Employee Share Ownership Plan (ESOP)
Paid parental leave
Group Salary Continuance Insurance
Employee Assistance Program
Additional leave days (study assistance, celebration days, volunteering)
Global working groups
Annual Hackathons
Novated leasing for electric vehicles
Internet reimbursement

About the Company

Deputy is a global SaaS workforce management company.
Our platform serves over 1.5 million workers and 375,000 workplaces across 100+ countries.
We are backed by top global investors and recently achieved Unicorn status.
We are improving the world of work for hourly workers.
We are becoming an AI-native company, empowering employees to use AI tools and thinking in their day-to-day work.

Equal Opportunity

Deputy believes in equal opportunity and that inclusiveness and diversity promotes innovation.
Our global team members are from a variety of cultures.
We welcome different perspectives and skills.