Edge Device Platform Engineer

Who is Transmax?

Transmax is a transport solutions provider of the ITS platform, STREAMS. We exist to improve people’s quality of life and helps move millions of commuters around Australian road networks every day. We partner with customers to deliver creative solutions that optimise transport networks and support safer and more reliable road journeys.

It’s an exciting time in our history as we modernise our core STREAMS product and work with customers to enable the future of mobility.

About the role:

Transmax has grown significantly over the last 18 months, and we are not slowing down!

We’re in the next exciting stage of our growth phase which is why we are now recruiting for a Edge Device Platform Engineer to play a vital role in our company’s future.

As Edge Device Platform Engineer your role will be to develop and maintain technologies and applications deployed at the edge of a massively-distributed system to provide a capable and contemporary edge platform. This platform is core to the success of our business and securely integrate a vast array of road traffic control sensors and devices, manages real-time communications protocols, perform complex event processing, and action responses in fractions of a second.

Your day-to-day will include:

• Working closely with technical teams to achieve sprint goals, ensuring delivered and enduring product quality, reliability, and performance.
• Build and maintain a Linux platform for STREAMS edge devices (custom hardware).
• Undertake software design, development, maintenance and test coding/automation activities to implement applications, protocols and APIs compliant with a technical reference architecture and design patterns.
• Maintain continuous integration and deployment pipelines capable of achieving highly
  repeatable and reliable deployments across a fleet of geographically-distributed devices.
• Identify and promptly patch third-party software components to proactively protect against reported defects and emergent security vulnerabilities.
• Assemble and configure analogues of roadside device environments using wide area network communications and either real-world ITS device hardware or emulators to validate site functionality, reliability and performance.
• Perform analysis and optimisation of systems in production, diagnosing and rectifying issues, and improving product resilience, scalability and performance (such as reducing memory footprint, data latency, and/or processing duration)
• Have an urge to document and communicate designs, findings, and actions so they become more widely known and reliably repeatable, automating them wherever possible.

About You:

We’re on the look out for an empathetic, values driven self-starter comfortable with working in team oriented fast paced environment.

You will be tertiary-level qualified in Software Engineering, Information Technology or Computer Science, with at least 3-5 years of industry experience in software product development and/or systems operations roles.

Your toolkit for success will include:

• Experience working in a software-as-a-service environment that utilises DevOps and SRE practices (with an emphasis on automation) to continuously develop, test, deploy and support scalable, highly-available software solutions.
• Comfortability working in both Windows and Linux environments, and familiar with either private/on-prem or public cloud infrastructure, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Proficiency in developing libraries, applications and APIs using a range of languages and technologies such as C++, Rust, Python, message queues, emulation, and unit test frameworks, with exposure to application containerisation technologies, such as Docker.
• Aware of the specific challenges involved in working in compute, memory and/or network constrained environments, including algorithm optimisation and data compression.
• Proficient with interpreting data communications protocol specifications and implementing robust handlers, serialisers and deserialisers to achieve integrations.
• Familiarity with data networking, internet protocols and application interface technologies such as serial I/O, HDLC, AMQP, MQTT, REST, JSON, XML and Protobuf.
• Accustomed to working with open-source platforms, components and libraries, including different Linux distributions, managing packages, patching, and configuration, and customising a Linux OS for hardware using tools such as multistrap and yocto.
• Accustomed to working with open-source platforms, components and libraries including an understanding of different Linux distributions (and OSS license types and constraints), with an ability to manage OS packages, patching, configuration and administration.
• Competency with source code control, artefact repository, and CI/CD pipeline technologies, including tools such as GitLab, Artifactory, Jira and Confluence.

What does Transmax offer?

We offer:

• A competitive salary
• A high-trust, high-empowering, openly supportive working environment & culture
• WFH options (2 days in office per week)
• Uncapped training budgets to support your career development
• Employee Assistance Program with access up to 10 sessions
• A recently renovated office in Milton (with some pretty great views, if you ask us)
• Corporate private health discounts through Bupa
• Flexible working hours & arrangements (the right to disconnect & enjoy life!)
• Lots of support for your career plans and advancement
• An environment where you’re encouraged to succeed.

 
With our culture of recognition, career development, and a supportive and stimulating and satisfying work environment - your next career chapter is waiting for you at Transmax.

If you’re interested in pursuing this opportunity, please apply by submitting your CV and a brief cover letter outlining your experience and suitability for the role. We would love to hear from you!

Successful applicants will be subject to a National Criminal History Check and a Qualification check.
Applicants must hold full working rights within Australia.
We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes and are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.