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The shift to renewables, the proliferation of rooftop solar, batteries and EVs, and the increasing complexity of distribution networks are forcing utilities to operate their grids in fundamentally new ways. Gridsight's software platform uses data, ML and AI to help grid operators modernise their operations and unlock transformational new capabilities. We deliver visibility into the grid edge, faster renewable connections, and real-time orchestration of distributed energy. The opportunity is enormous ($1B+ ARR).\nWe're embedded with over 50% of Australia's distribution networks, more than 30% in New Zealand, and have 1 of the top 5 utilities in the US as our lighthouse. Airtree led our Series A, Insight lead our Series B, we grew ARR 3.4x in the past 6 months, and we're on the path to build the first truly generational utility software company.\nWe hold an exceptionally high talent bar, but if you’re talented, hungry and ambitious, come join us on our mission.\nPurpose\nMake it faster and safer for every Gridsight product team to ship, by solving shared infrastructure, reliability and developer experience problems once instead of in every team.\nGridsight builds grid analytics software for electricity utilities in Australia, New Zealand and the US. Our customers run critical infrastructure, so the platform under our product has to be secure, observable and dependable. This role builds that platform.\nWhere the role sits\nYou'll be the first staff engineer (and first IC) on Gridsight's new Infrastructure Platform team. You'll collaborate with a Head of Platform (open role) to help set the team's technical direction, with support from engineering leadership. To start with you'll be a band of one: owning problems end to end across teams and functions, while we build the team out around you.\nThe Infrastructure Platform team is a true platform team in Team Topologies terms: it builds and runs internal products that other teams self-serve. Your customers are our product teams (Grid Visibility, Flex, Connections, Grid Modelling Tooling) and our pillar teams (Data Platform and Grid Modelling Engine).\nIt sits alongside our Experience Platform and Agentic Platform teams. Together these three own the shared foundations that product teams build on.\nInfrastructure Platform builds the substrate and building blocks for self serve: cloud infrastructure, compute, IAM, CI/CD, environments and observability.\nIT Ops owns our corporate IT and its compliance controls. You'll partner with them on SOC 2 and customer security reviews: they cover corporate controls, you cover production infrastructure, and together you make compliance evidence come straight from the platform.\nYou'll join the on-call rotation and help shape how we run incidents as our incident management practice matures.\nKey accountabilities\nObservability. Build and run our metrics, tracing, logging and alerting platform, and set the patterns that let each team own its own observability over time.\nDelivery and environments. Evolve and consolidate our deployment pipelines, release management and infrastructure-as-code. Own environment management and test infrastructure, with the goal of shorter lead times and faster CI feedback.\nSecure, multi-region infrastructure. Design infrastructure that is secure by default, cost-effective and ready for multi-tenant, multi-region delivery across Australia, New Zealand and the US. Work with IT Ops to build SOC 2 controls and evidence into the platform, so teams meet compliance by default rather than by manual effort.\nReliability practice. Help define SLOs and error budgets, improve how we respond to and learn from incidents, and take a turn on call.\nDeveloper experience. Treat internal engineers as customers. Seek out their friction, measure their satisfaction, and build tools and abstractions they choose to adopt.\nAI-assisted delivery. Leverage AI-assisted development tooling to accelerate delivery and raise the bar on what a small team can ship.\nRaising the bar. Mentor engineers across teams and shift how the organisation thinks about reliability, operability and developer experience. Run the platform as a product, with clear interfaces, docs and support, so teams self-serve rather than queue for help.\nWhat makes this a Staff role\nThis is not a senior engineer with a bigger backlog. At Staff level we expect you to (in collaboration with engineering leadership):\nHelp set technical direction for platform work across every team, and own a platform roadmap that runs over multiple quarters.\nShape decisions you don't own, by writing clear proposals and bringing other teams with you.\nFind the highest-leverage problems yourself, rather than waiting for them to be handed to you.\nDefine the systems and practices others work within, not just work within them well.\nHelp shape the Infrastructure Platform team from day one, including its early roadmap and how it engages with product teams.\nHow we'll know it's working\nLead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate and time to restore are measured and improving.\nCI feedback is fast and reliable enough that engineers stop working around it.\nProduct teams own their own dashboards and alerts, and on-call engineers find problems before customers do.\nDeveloper satisfaction with the platform is measured regularly and trending up.\nSOC 2 evidence comes straight from the platform, with no manual collection before an audit.\nOur infrastructure-as-code matches what's actually running, and the legacy estate is retired.\nOut-of-hours pages are measured per system and falling.\nWhat you'll bring\n~8 or more years in software engineering, with recent work at Staff level (or clearly operating at it) in platform, infrastructure or SRE.\nDeep experience running cloud infrastructure in production, including compute, networking, storage, IAM and cost management, with strong infrastructure-as-code skills (AWS and Terraform preferred).\nA track record of building and operating observability platforms that teams actually rely on.\nHands-on SRE practice: SLOs, error budgets, incident response and runbooks.\nExperience on a platform team in a product engineering organisation, running the platform as a product that teams adopt willingly.\nStrong software engineering fundamentals and a habit of setting direction and driving outcomes without close supervision.\nFluency in the use of AI-assisted development tools - 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