Senior Platform Engineer

Who are we?

Lyka is an Australian founded pet wellness company that’s shaking up an outdated industry and paving the way for happier, healthier pets. Despite medical advancements, animal lifespans are on the decline. Today, the average pet only reaches 37% of their full potential lifespan and statistics have shown us that many suffer from dental disease, cancer, and obesity. Simply put, the status quo is not enough.

As humans, we’ve experienced firsthand the positive impact fresh wholefoods can have on our health and wellbeing, and we believe our furry friends deserve the same. We're on a mission to do just that, starting with nutritionally balanced, wholefood meals delivered direct to doors around Australia. As the world’s most sustainable pet wellness company, we’re putting pets and our planet first - one bowl at a time.

Today, we are proud to share we’ve served 40 million meals to puppers and their parents across Australia, and this is just the beginning. Our vision is to create multiple nutritional products, adding disease prevention meals and supplements, and expand into new markets. 

Currently, we have a team of 200+ pet-obsessed people and we're continuing to grow (yes, looking at you!). These carefully selected people are dedicated to building the next generation of technology and products to help empower pet parents to take control over their pet’s wellbeing. 

To date, we have raised over $60M in funding from venture capital investors and pet industry insiders, who believe in our mission and ability to drive change in a stagnant industry, providing nutrition that nourishes puppers from the inside out.

Are you ready to shake things up and give pets the life they deserve? Come join our pack! 

Our Mission

The time we share with our pets is being cut short. Despite medical advancements, they’re getting sicker earlier. They’re dying prematurely. The industry has it backwards — prioritising treating symptoms instead of addressing the root cause. That’s where we come in.

At Lyka, we take a preventative, holistic and personalised approach to pet care. We look at the full picture, factoring in the diet, lifestyle and environment of each individual animal. 

We don’t stop at symptoms, instead we dig for the root cause. We create nutrition plans unique to each pet, because it’s not just about living longer, but living well too. 

Our mission is to increase the lifespan of dogs and cats.  

The Role

Lyka is currently seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our internal Platform team and help support our squads in their work to deliver Lyka’s industry-leading pet food to our puppers. You will have a minimum of five years of commercial experience, preferably within other start-ups or a similar fast-paced engineering environment.

As a key member of your squad, you will ensure the timely execution of its objectives as we transition to a microservices architecture and enhance our technical skills across the entire engineering team. You will contribute to the core components of a new project, helping to achieve the technical vision of a brand new e-commerce platform designed to introduce the Lyka brand to businesses throughout Australia.

• Significant experience deploying services on AWS (including ECS, Fargate, EC2, ALB, Auto Scaling, RDS, Lambda, IAM)
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure as code (ideally CDK & CloudFormation)
• Experience building and optimising CI/CD delivery pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar
• Development experience using Node.js (TypeScript)
• Familiarity with observability in a microservices environment using tools such as CloudWatch & Honeycomb
• Solid networking & network security skills (VPC, security groups, TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS)
• The ability to mentor and convey DevOps best practices to each of our engineering squads to enable them to self-serve our technology stack
• Strong collaboration skills - enabling you to use your talent and experience to increase the knowledge, capabilities and output of each of the squads in our engineering team
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

The "nice to have's":

• Experience with AWS security and compliance services (Control Tower, Config, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Inspector)
• Experience integrating security processes and tooling into the software development lifecycle

• Work in a fast-growing start-up, experiencing what goes behind the scenes to sustain hyper-growth for a start-up with a physical product!
• Growth and Development – Lyka is growing extremely quickly, which means you will have the opportunity to experience different challenges every day and progressively acquire more responsibilities as our facility and team expand. We provide an annual L&D budget for you to continue your personal development.
• Work for a sustainability-focused company – we care about the health of our dogs and our planet. We’re proud to be Australia’s only carbon-negative and plastic-negative pet wellness company and we’re always looking at ways for us to improve sustainability practices.
• Be part of a diverse top-talent team, coming from widely different backgrounds and geographies.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave for primary carers and 6 weeks for secondary carers, alongside 2 weeks of miscarriage leave in the first twenty weeks. We also offer 18 paid weeks to both primary and secondary carers if you have been at Lyka for over two years.
• Wellbeing assistance and tools to take care of your mental and physical wellbeing so you can do your best work.
• Flexible working: work from where you get your best work done. We have pet-friendly offices and industrial kitchens in Sydney and Melbourne and offer a working-from-home allowance for your home set-up.
• Pupper parent support to care for your furry friends – flexible arrangements for new pets, pet-friendly offices, discounts, and financial allowance for dog training and care to help them live their best life!

We are committed to building inclusive and diverse teams

Lyka is an equal-opportunity employer devoted to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. We celebrate diversity, are devoted to creating an inclusive environment for all staff and encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application.