Ever wanted a role where the product is scaling fast, the ambitions are global, and your work genuinely keeps the lights on for real humans around the world πβ¨
This innovative SaaS platform is growing up quickly, and we need someone who loves calm thinking in chaotic moments, sharp debugging, and building the kind of operational muscle that makes a business unbreakable π§ π§
And yep, you can start basically as fast as Santa can deliver on Christmas Eve π·π¨π
β Β Hybrid, 3 days a week in the Sydney officeΒ ποΈπ
Youβll be working with smart, ambitious, fun, engaged people who all know theyβre building something bigger than just another SaaS πβ¨
π What youβll be doing
- Jumping into hands-on production support from day one, then steadily evolving the function into properΒ SREΒ practices and a trueΒ Site Reliability EngineerΒ capability over time ππ§ π
- Acting as the main escalation point for production, owning incidents end to end, and keeping everyone aligned while you drive resolution π¨β
- Helping design a real on-call and incident rhythm, this role will shape the playbook, and yourΒ SREΒ mindset will lift how the whole team runs ππ οΈ
- Digging into data, logs, and platform behaviour, especially the deeper investigations that sit beyond typical customer support triage ππ§©
- Debugging Node.js and TypeScript services, untangling API weirdness, and finding the real root cause π΅οΈ βοΈβοΈ
- Living in AWS serverless land, event-driven systems, logs, dashboards, alerts, and the stuff nobody appreciates until it breaks βοΈβοΈ
- Troubleshooting problems that pop up in the mobile universe, iOS and Android, where βworks on my phoneβ is not a strategy π±π
- Partnering with the local engineering team in Sydney, and over time helping build a follow-the-sun approach, with eventual coverage across EU and US time zones πβ¨
- Helping the platform mature from strong production support into a more structuredΒ Site Reliability EngineerΒ model, including better runbooks, stronger signals, and cleaner incident response ππ
π What youβll bring, plus bonus points if youβve got it
- You love troubleshooting, youβre the person who can take a messy, vague issue and calmly turn it into a clear root cause and a clean fix π§©π΅οΈ βοΈ
- Confident navigating logs and data stores, and doing deeper platform investigations when the answer is not obvious ππ§
- Comfortable working with ambiguity, you donβt need a 12-step checklist to get moving, you create momentum, and you go find the answers π―β‘
- Around 6+ years in a hands-on environment like platform operations, production support, reliability engineering, or technical support for complex systems π§°
- Strong at getting to the bottom of issues in Node.js and TypeScript, including API integrations and service to service weirdness π§π§
- Confident troubleshooting mobile ecosystem issues, iOS and Android behaviour, device quirks, app to backend interactions π±βοΈ
- Comfortable jumping into cloud-first setups, especially modern serverless patterns, monitoring, storage, caching, and search type services βοΈπ
- Youβve been on the hook for serious incidents before, high severity, high impact, and you know how to respond calmly, communicate clearly, and restore service fast π¨π§―
- You write and speak well, and you can work with engineers, product, support, and leadership without anything getting lost in translation βοΈπ€
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring tooling, whether thatβs native cloud monitoring or broader platforms, you know what βgood signalsβ look like ππ
- Experience supporting a global SaaS or consumer-facing product, where scale, latency, and reliability actually matter πβ¨
- Bonus if youβve touched React or React Native enough to understand common architecture patterns and where problems tend to hide π§ π»π²
- Helpful if youβve wrestled with deployments and pipelines, CI/CD troubleshooting, release issues, rollback moments, the whole fun circus πͺπ
- Handy if you can support some older tech stacks too, including Windows-based environments and some .NET-era realities πͺπ§
- Nice if youβve dealt with regulated or safety-critical environments, or systems where the operational bar is higher than average π‘οΈ
- Even better if youβve helped lift a teamβs capability, playbooks, processes, incident routines, on-call maturity, or operational discipline π§±π
π The vibe
Fast growth, global realities, and a team that wants someone proactive, curious, and calm under pressure πβ
If you like building stability while the rocket is already in the air, this oneβs got your name on it ππ
π© Email Keiran,Β keiran@bigwavedigital.com.au, or simply apply via the job advert ππ βοΈπ
