Staff Engineer (Hirer Engagement) at SEEK

The Team The Hirer Engagement team works cross-functionally, partnering with key stakeholders across upstream and downstream dependencies to deliver a seamless acquisition and wayfinding experience while strengthening hirer relationships. Strategic projects in pipeline for FY26 to create visibility and impact across the organisation. About the role  A Staff Engineer at SEEK is a senior technical leader and a key driver of engineering excellence across teams and domains. You will set technical direction, establish and scale best practices, and ensure they are adopted consistently. You’ll shape technology roadmaps, influence architectural decisions across systems, and raise the bar on reliability, security, and performance. While you remain hands-on where it matters—particularly in complex design, critical reviews, and reference implementations—your primary focus is strategic technical leadership, enabling teams to deliver high-quality outcomes at scale, and coaching engineers at all levels. This role provides a unique opportunity to drive the strategic direction of hirer journeys and platforms, build cohesive engineering practices across squads, and elevate the effectiveness of both senior and junior engineers through mentorship, technical guidance, and thought leadership.  Responsibilities  • Define and drive technology strategy, architectural principles, and multi-quarter roadmaps. • Establish, codify, and ensure adoption of engineering best practices across teams. • Lead critical design reviews and guide the architecture of scalable, secure distributed systems. • Create high-leverage enablement (templates, libraries, tooling, docs) to standardize delivery. • Coach and mentor senior and junior engineers; grow technical leaders and strong judgment. • Uplift DevOps, reliability, security, and operational excellence (SLOs, on-call, post-incident). • Align stakeholders on trade-offs and phased execution; influence across squads and domains.