Site Reliability Engineer

Plenti is a fintech lender, providing faster, fairer loans through smart technology and outstanding customer service. Our proprietary technology delivers award-winning automotive, renewable energy and personal loans to help creditworthy borrowers bring their big ideas to life.

We are a dynamic and innovative business that is growing strongly. By continuing to deliver better customer value and experience we are taking market share from incumbent players in the personal lending, renewable energy and automotive finance markets.

We are a fast moving and ambitious organisation that seeks to bring in smart and capable people who can take ownership of their role to help the business continue to grow and thrive. We have approximately 200 people based in Australia and are a small enough organisation that everyone can make a difference but we have very big ambitions that our passionate team are working to deliver.

Plenti is a founder led organisation and is now listed on the ASX with annual revenue of >$150 million. We are on a mission to be Australia’s best lender!

• Resiliency and reliability patterns are where you find engineering work interesting.

• You have a few years experience in software engineering or site reliability engineering roles.

• You’ve delivered large pieces of work independently, and are eager start taking end to ownership of solutions - including design and planning.

• You've worked on distributed systems before, and you understand the trade off between microservices and monoliths.

• You're comfortable talking to engineering teams about how they can introduce resiliency into their workloads, and showing them how.

• Learning is your default mode, and you love thinking about what could be possible next.

• You like to build things that make your team mates lives easier, you just can't leave an annoying problem in peoples workflows alone.

• You understand DevOps principles and how they add value, and you can explain this to others.

• You thrive working with a diverse group of individuals, bringing a range of backgrounds and experience to the table to solve challenges.

• This role can be based in either Sydney or Adelaide.

• CI/CD - we use Buildkite, Github, and OctopusDeploy

• Infrastructure as Code - we use Terraform

• Scripting and Automation - Bash, Powershell, Python

• Monitoring and Observability - we use Datadog

• Container orchestration - we’re using Kubernetes

We've built out a cutting edge in house platform for powering the Plenti machine, and we're not done yet.

Our engineering team is key to powering Plenti's big ambitions moving forward and we're looking for someone to help reinforce reliability engineering within our technology teams. This person would be contributing a combination of hands on engineering, as well as evangelism and teaching within the wider engineering teams.

Our platform is largely powered by event driven microservices, the majority of which runs on Linux containers. Our entire environment is cloud native, running on AWS. We utilise modern patterns, and tooling, and are always looking to improve.

Our engineers deploy to production many times a day via automated pipelines, and reliability is key to our ability to continuously deploy our workloads. We don't believe that releasing software requires downtime, and we embrace processes that allow our teams to move faster. This is why reliability engineering is important to us.

This role is based in Sydney in our Martin Place office.

Working at Plenti means joining a team that is high-performing, diverse, customer-focused and collaborative. It’s a place where everyone can “make it happen” and share in the results and rewards.

If being in a dynamic industry as part of a market-leading fintech sounds like you, then come help us positively reshape Australia’s financial eco-system. Our start-up culture fosters innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership and your career progression. We have a purpose our people believe in, and genuine values that come from deep within our business.