Senior Staff Engineer (AIPS)

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SEEK is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer for the Pricing and Performance team in Melbourne on a hybrid, full‑time basis. You will shape architecture and strategy across pricing, ad quality, performance management and ML‑enabled products, ensuring coherence and resilience across multiple teams. You’ll partner with Engineering Managers and leaders to solve cross‑team problems, raise technical standards and enable high‑quality delivery while guiding roadmaps and tech radars. Strong backend, cloud, AWS and Spark/Databricks experience, plus AI/ML systems, are essential. Perks include a performance bonus, flexible work, generous leave and up to four weeks remote. Tip for applicants: highlight architecture ownership, cross‑team impact, measurable delivery improvements, and collaboration with data science, product and leadership.

Company Description

About SEEK

SEEK’s portfolio of diverse businesses make a positive impact on a truly global scale. Our purpose is to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organisations succeed. We create world-class technology solutions to connect more people to relevant employment, education, small business and volunteer opportunities. We have a culture of high-performance in our workplaces and celebrate the diversity of our employees who contribute to the success of our organisation.

Life at SEEK

SEEK’s purpose is at the centre of everything we do. Our SEEK, which defines the way we work, is all about what makes us unique and a little bit different. Passion, Team, Delivery and Future are our principles that drive innovation and creativity. SEEK strives to support employee wellbeing by providing an amazing experience at work which led us to being named AFR BOSS Top 10 Best Places to Work in Technology (2021-2024). We are proud to work in an environment that's inclusive where everyone's unique ideas, experiences and perspectives are valued.

Our award-winning head office in Cremorne (just a 4 min walk from Richmond station) provides an exceptional space to collaborate with colleagues. The building provides sweeping views of the city, a games area, sit and stand desks at every workstation, modern end-of-trip facilities and Thursday night drinks which gives our people an opportunity to connect in a social setting.

Job Description

The team

Pricing and Performance helps generate placements by maintaining scale and efficiently matching both sides of the marketplace, with monetisation models that support that value creation loop.

The team brings together data scientists, engineers and product managers working across some of SEEK’s most important marketplace and monetisation problems.

The work spans pricing, marketplace performance, ad quality, performance management and adjacent decisioning capabilities that help SEEK balance marketplace outcomes with commercial outcomes.

About the role 

As a Senior Staff Engineer at SEEK, you will be a senior technical leader with broad influence across the Pricing and Performance team.

You will influence the technical architecture, strategy and integrity of solutions across Pricing and Performance, ensuring our systems are cohesive, resilient, scalable and fit for purpose across multiple teams.

This role is about creating leverage across the team: shaping direction, raising technical standards, helping teams make better decisions, and enabling high-quality delivery across a broad and complex problem space.

Responsibilities 

• Influence and evolve the technical architecture and strategy across Pricing and Performance, ensuring coherence and integrity across systems, models, data assets and ML-enabled products.
• Set technical direction for services and platforms that support pricing, ad quality, performance management and related marketplace capabilities.
• Partner with Engineering Managers and team technical leaders to solve complex cross-team technical problems and make sound long-term trade-offs.
• Support engineers and data scientists to deliver well, lift technical quality, and improve how teams build, operate and evolve systems.
• Work with the Head of Engineering, Head of Data Science and Head of Product on longer-term roadmaps, technical radars, priorities and investment choices.
• Work with other Senior Staff Engineers across the wider department to lead and drive cross-department technical initiatives.
• Act as the technical escalation point for significant architectural, delivery, reliability, and operational challenges, while driving engineering excellence through improved software quality, security practices, operational excellence, and engineering discipline across multiple teams.

Qualifications

Skills and experience 

We’re looking for someone with deep backend engineering fundamentals and the ability to operate credibly across architecture, delivery, data and AI/ML-oriented systems. Strong candidates will bring many of the following:

• Experience owning technical architecture and strategy across a broad problem space, with accountability for coherence and integrity across multiple teams.
• A strong software engineering background, ideally in backend and cloud-first systems, with experience designing scalable, resilient services and platforms.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, Spark and/or Databricks, and AI/ML-enabled systems.
• The ability to influence senior technical and non-technical stakeholders, facilitate difficult trade-offs and bring teams with you.
• Experience improving technical quality, delivery effectiveness and operational practices across multiple teams.

Additional Information

Permanent Perks
At SEEK we offer:

• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
• Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days and Volunteer Days, as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Support for parents with 14 weeks paid primary carers leave and 2 weeks paid leave for partners
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year

At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.

Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

For this role, only those candidates with the eligible right to work will be considered.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.