Site Reliability Engineer - Liquidity Platform

Site Reliability Engineer - Liquidity Platform

Additional office locations

Melbourne, Sydney

Job ID

21734

Date

21-Aug-2026

Permanent - Full time, Junior, Mid-level

Join our technology team supporting the Liquidity Platform with our Commodities and Global Markets business. Our team supports the platform that delivers capital and liquidity reporting for Macquarie's Commodities and Global Markets business. We manage a business-critical service that processes trade, rates and reference data each day and provides results to Treasury systems that rely on timely and accurate information.

We are a global financial services group operating in 30 markets with 57 years of unbroken profitability. At Macquarie, you're empowered to shape a career that is fulfilling and creates value. You will bring your insights and expertise to the task at hand and feel supported as you make your own kind of impact for a better future.

What role will you play?

In this role you will help build and shape our site reliability engineering practices as the team's first dedicated Site Reliability Engineer. You will improve reliability, monitoring and automation across a cloud-based platform, while working across application support, platform operations and software engineering to ensure the service runs smoothly and meets daily delivery deadlines.

You learn fast, take ownership, and use AI tools effectively, including critically reviewing and validating their output for accuracy.

What you offer

• Hands-on experience across Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, platform or software engineering
• Strong troubleshooting skills across applications, infrastructure and data, including problems no runbook covers
• Programming experience with Python, with an interest in automation and reliability engineering. You're comfortable picking up an unfamiliar codebase and changing it safely, with your work going through code review.
• Experience with Kubernetes and containers, ideally EKS
• Solid AWS and Linux fundamentals, with working knowledge of SQL and relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL or Aurora
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting, and clear views on what's worth measuring and alerting on in a complex platform

What we offer

At Macquarie, you're empowered to shape a career that's rewarding in all the ways that matter most to you. Macquarie employees can access a wide range of benefits which, depending on employment type, include:

• 1 wellbeing leave day per year
• Up to 5 additional service bonus leave days per year
• Up to 20 weeks' paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of transition leave upon return to work, and 6 weeks' paid leave for non-primary caregivers
• 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching
• Up to 12 months' gender affirmation leave, including 6 weeks' paid leave
• Access to Employee Assistance Program and wellbeing benefits including skin and health checks, and flu vaccinations
• Access to a wide range of salary packaging options
• Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role
• Reimbursement for work from home equipment

About Technology

Technology enables every aspect of Macquarie, for our people, our customers and our communities. We're a global team that is passionate about accelerating the digital enterprise, connecting people and data, building platforms and applications and designing tomorrow's technology solutions.

Inclusion at Macquarie

We are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all, where different experiences, skills and perspectives are valued and respected. Macquarie provides access to opportunities for all individuals regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, marital status, gender identity or any other characteristic or circumstance.

We provide reasonable adjustments to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and employment. If you require an adjustment, please let us know during the application process.