Software Engineer (Site Reliability)

About us

• At the company, we're redefining entertainment with AI. We're one of the fastest-growing startups globally, serving 20 million users in our first year. We're an in-person company based in Sydney, Australia.
• We're guided by a set of principles that are foundational to our work and drive every decision:

+ User-first: We build things that people want. We invest time to understand our users and focus on adding value instead of extracting value.+ High agency, high ownership: We're responsible for the pieces we own, end-to-end. We own every mistake, figure out what went wrong, and fix it. We don't blame anyone or anything else.+ Urgency: This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. We prioritize well, find ways to increase leverage, and move at an inspirational pace.

What you'll do

• You'll be our first dedicated site reliability engineer, owning reliability and core platform decisions as we scale to hundreds of millions of users.

Example projects

• Improve uptime and reduce RTO across critical services.
• Orchestrate and harden GPU clusters serving millions of AI generations per day.
• Implement platform-wide observability (metrics, tracing, alerting) and enforce SLOs.
• Optimize AWS infrastructure and reduce cloud spend without sacrificing performance.

What you'll bring -

• 5+ years operating production systems at scale.
• Strong AWS experience (infra-as-code, high-scale compute, K8s/ECS or similar).
• Deep observability and incident response experience.
• CI/CD and deployment pipeline expertise.
• Familiarity with our tech stack: TypeScript, Next.js, React, TailwindCSS, tRPC, Postgres, Temporal, AWS.
• You write code and fix root causes, not just symptoms.
• Hunger to win. This is not going to be easy.

What we offer -

• Competitive compensation with meaningful upside.
• A company card for food, coffee, tools, and anything that helps you operate at a high level.
• Daily team lunch and dinner at the office.
• Unlimited workspace budget. Build your ideal setup.
• Real ownership and impact from day one.
• Based in Sydney and hiring globally. We sponsor visas and offer relocation assistance to help you make the move.

How we think about comp -

Our overarching philosophy is to raise the ceiling for our best performers, not the floor. We pay based on the value you add to the company.

• The range listed for this role is total comp: cash plus equity combined, with superannuation paid on top.
• We re-evaluate compensation every 6 months. Bonuses are backward-looking; raises are forward-looking.
• A bonus rewards work you've already done, like exceptional output or consistently performing above your level.
• A raise reflects that you've moved up. It resets your baseline to match the higher level you're now operating at.

Our interview process -

• A quick phone call to learn about you and share more about our company.
• A technical interview, 1hr of system design, no live coding.
• A paid work trial, so you get a feel for what it's like to work with us.
• You get an offer, and we celebrate!

Compensation Range: A$400K - A$800K