Cloud Engineer (Remote in AU)

Company Description
Managing business expenses shouldn't be a guessing game. Yet many SMEs still lack clear cash flow visibility and spend control. At Budgetly, we're changing that.
We're building an AI-first platform that simplifies expense management and helps businesses make better financial decisions, faster. The goal is simple: help you spend smarter, save time, and grow profitably.
This role is part of a small, fully remote engineering team, reporting to the Team Lead with a light-touch structure. You'll have real autonomy, own your outcomes, and be trusted to deliver.
Job Description
This is a senior backend engineering role with ownership of our DevSecOps and platform reliability capability.
You'll spend the majority of your time contributing to product development, while dedicating part of your week to the cloud infrastructure, security, automation and reliability foundations that enable the team to ship safely. You'll be our go-to engineer for AWS, CI/CD and DevSecOps.
In this role, you'll:
Design, build and ship product features using our product and coding agents
Own and continuously improve our AWS infrastructure across compute, networking, storage and IAM
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
Manage and evolve our infrastructure through AWS CDK
Embed security controls into the software delivery lifecycle, including vulnerability scanning, secrets management, access control and audit logging
Build and operate services using technologies including Lambda, DynamoDB, ECS Fargate, EventBridge and Aurora PostgreSQL
Own observability and production reliability using CloudWatch, Sentry and OpenTelemetry
Lead troubleshooting and incident response across application and infrastructure layers, including root-cause analysis and prevention, leveraging Linear or other automation solutions
Establish practical AWS, security and reliability standards across the engineering team
Monitor and improve platform reliability, capacity and performance
Balance security, reliability, cost and delivery speed pragmatically
Share your expertise and help strengthen cloud, DevSecOps and reliability practices across the engineering team
Qualifications
What We're Looking For
Deep hands-on cloud expertise. You've built and operated production-grade cloud infrastructure yourself.
A security-first mindset. You think about IAM, secrets, and vulnerabilities as part of the build, not an afterthought bolted on at the end.
What We Need From You
Demonstrated senior-level experience as a backend/software engineer, with significant hands-on DevOps and SecOps responsibility
Strong production experience with AWS, including Lambda, DynamoDB, ECS Fargate and EventBridge
Hands-on production experience using AWS CDK for Infrastructure-as-Code
Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
Experience working with PostgreSQL in production environments
Observability experience, including CloudWatch and tools such as Sentry and OpenTelemetry
Strong security engineering practices across vulnerability management, secrets management, IAM/access control and audit/compliance logging
Experience with containerisation and orchestration, including Docker and ECS Fargate
Incident response and troubleshooting skills across distributed systems
Ability to operate autonomously at a senior level and set technical direction with minimal oversight
Read this before you apply
You'll thrive here if you're a senior backend engineer who enjoys building product but also wants meaningful ownership of the infrastructure, automation, security and reliability behind it.
You'll have the autonomy to shape how we approach DevSecOps and platform reliability while remaining hands-on in product engineering.
This role requires full Australian working rights, and you must be located in Australia.
Additional Information
We're guided by trust, respect, and ownership. Our values, Embrace Change, Carte Blanche, Find Wisdom in Data, and We All "Own It", shape how we work.
We're fully remote, so you can work from anywhere in Australia
5 weeks annual leave and flexible working - we believe in balance
Monthly "Wellness Budget" to help you stay healthy, mentally & physically
Employee share options (ESOP) for all team members - we truly all "own it"
How to apply?
To start your application with us, submit your CV via the application form. Note that background checks are required as part of our offer process.
We welcome applications from all backgrounds, abilities, and identities. We value diversity and believe that it enhances our creativity, innovation, and overall success. Join us in creating a workplace where everyone can thrive.

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