Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Civica US

full-time

Posted on: 9/19/2025

Origin: • 🇦🇺 Australia

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CloudDistributed Systems.NET

About the role

Play a foundational role in shaping how we build, scale, and evolve our next-generation technology stack for Civica's products.
Define and evolve product engineering practices, tooling, and shared application architecture patterns.
Lead technical discovery, prototyping, and architectural alignment across teams contributing to our new platform.
Provide hands-on support to unblock teams, improve implementation quality, and resolve cross-team technical challenges.
Collaborate with product managers, engineering leaders, and other staff/principal engineers to shape delivery flow, team responsibilities, and ownership boundaries.
Act as a mentor and technical coach to engineers across the organisation.
Contribute to long-term architectural decisions that optimise for modularity, resilience, and operability.
Facilitate healthy architectural debate, consensus-building, and design governance.
Navigate ambiguity and help co-create the organisation’s path toward consolidated, high-quality delivery.

Technical depth and breadth: Strong expertise in building, scaling, and evolving modern web applications—ideally across both front-end and back-end domains (e.g. .NET, C#, cloud-native platforms).
System design & problem-solving: Demonstrated ability to design and evolve architecture in complex, real-world systems.
Influence & collaboration: Builds trust across teams, facilitates alignment, and helps teams move forward without needing formal authority.
Delivery orientation: Understands how to balance engineering design with delivery constraints and business priorities.
Organisational thinking: Shapes engineering patterns that scale across teams and time—familiar with enabling or platform team models.
Nice to have: Experience with distributed systems and event-driven architecture.
Nice to have: Familiarity with modern CI/CD, observability, and quality automation practices.
Nice to have: Exposure to legacy system modernisation, refactoring, or product migration strategies.
Nice to have: Awareness of Team Topologies, Domain-Driven Design, or similar models for designing software and teams.