Lead Software Engineer - Platform
HalterVirtual Fencing company
AucklandLead
Bessemer Venture Partners
Founders Fund
Blackbird Ventures
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Lead Software Engineer to shape platform infrastructure, developer experience, and AI tooling.
- •As a Lead Engineer on the Platform team, you will set the direction for building, running, and evolving the core systems that power Halter.
- •You'll combine deep technical expertise with leadership to shape cloud infrastructure, developer experience, security, and AI-assisted engineering.
- •Key Responsibilities Drive AI tooling adoption to accelerate development across the organization.
- •Build tooling, guardrails, and golden paths for safe and rapid engineer shipping.
- •Set technical direction for cloud infrastructure as Halter scales globally.
- •Integrate security into the platform through guardrails and sensible defaults.
- •Ensure the reliability of the core compute and orchestration layer at scale.
- •Requirements Deep experience building and operating AWS at scale, with fluency in container orchestration, cloud networking, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
- •Experience leading platform or infrastructure work in a high-growth environment.
- •Understanding of good developer experience and building internal platforms.
- •Hands-on experience hardening cloud environments and treating security as a first-class concern.
- •Excitement about AI tooling's impact on engineering teams.
Required skills
AWSKubernetesTerraformDockerCI/CDIAMPythonJavaScriptTypeScriptGitLinuxMicroservicesREST APIgRPC
Nice-to-have skills
PostgreSQL
Tech stack
AWSKubernetesTerraformDockerCI/CDIAMPythonJavaScriptTypeScriptGitLinuxPostgreSQLMicroservicesREST APIgRPC