Senior Site Reliability Engineer, ANZ

About Partly

Partly, headquartered in Austin, TX with offices worldwide including Auckland and Christchurch in New Zealand, is pioneering AI-driven infrastructure to facilitate repairability across industries, starting with the $2 trillion automotive sector. Their core AI model, Interpreter, trained on massive automotive data, dramatically improves parts-list accuracy for repair estimations and powers various enterprise workflows and APIs. Partly has strong backing from notable investors and is growing rapidly with a global team.

Role Overview

This senior Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) position demands autonomous, strategic leadership to design and maintain scalable, secure cloud infrastructure and services. The role focuses on ensuring system reliability, uptime, performance, and smooth software delivery while collaborating closely across engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain stability, scalability, and security of Kubernetes-based cloud infrastructure and applications using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform on GCP, ArgoCD GitOps, Python/Bash automation).
• Monitor and optimize cloud and on-premise resource costs, recommending architectural improvements that balance cost-efficiency with performance and reliability.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with developers, data engineers, and leadership to plan for infrastructure needs and improve SRE practices through tooling, guidance, and training.
• Ensure software is production-ready, proactively identifying and driving improvements.
• Lead incident response and troubleshooting efforts, assisting developers with debugging across applications, networks, databases, and systems.

Required Competencies and Experience

• Strong software engineering skills focused on developing and maintaining complex systems with an emphasis on code robustness and maintainability.
• Solid foundations in computer science fundamentals such as data structures, concurrency, system architecture, API design, testing, and design patterns.
• System engineering expertise including performance profiling, contention analysis, and network diagnostics.
• Hands-on expertise with SRE methodologies and modern tooling including containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), infrastructure as code (Terraform), and GitOps workflows (ArgoCD).
• Thorough knowledge of at least one major cloud provider platform (preferably GCP) and Linux OS, with capabilities in server tuning, database/storage management, and Kubernetes cluster operations.
• Proactive ownership mindset and demonstrated leadership experience mentoring engineers or leading projects, with a proven ability to deliver complex solutions.
• Excellent communication skills allowing for effective collaboration across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Adaptable and eager to learn new skills in a dynamic startup environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in high-growth startup settings, comfortable with change and ambiguity.
• Familiarity with maintaining security compliance and certifications.
• Experience with tools used by Partly such as GCP, ArgoCD, GitLab CI, Kafka.
• Knowledge or experience running production workloads on Apache Cassandra and/or Postgres databases.
• Rust programming expertise with ability to mentor others.

Additional Notes

Applicants lacking some listed skills but confident in their potential to excel are encouraged to apply. Partly values diversity and invites candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to consider this opportunity.

Benefits and Perks

• Healthy catered lunches provided daily at main offices.
• An annual wellness stipend of $1,500 (or local equivalent) for health and fitness needs.
• Three months fully paid parental leave plus flexible return-to-work arrangements for primary caregivers.
• Commute support including paid parking or allowance.
• Modern, inspiring office environments designed for collaboration, with quality coffee and nearby cafes.
• An office-first culture in cities with offices, coupled with flexible work schedule trust.
• Regular social events including weekly happy hours, monthly lunches, quarterly team gatherings, and annual global offsites.

Relocation Support

Partly offers a generous relocation allowance for candidates moving domestically or internationally to their HQ.