Senior Software Engineer Sydney Hybrid

About Us

At Displayr, our mission is to make it easier for everyone to find and share the stories in their data. We do this by creating software that makes it easy to do all aspects of data analysis and reporting, from simple tables to machine learning, PowerPoint automation to online dashboards.

Our Engineering team is at the heart of this mission, and we need YOU.

We're a bootstrapped company - no corporate debt, no external investors. In the last five years, we've grown from 11 to over 100 people, and we have 1500+ great clients, from small businesses through to Amazon &
Meta.

We have recently won 1st place in the Great Places to Work, Best Tech Companies List 2023 ANZ for small employers and we are proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work for the second year in a row.

Displayr partners with Work180, an organization dedicated to improving the workplace for Diversity and Inclusion, particularly working conditions for women. We won three awards in 2023 for flexible working, pay equity, and shared caring responsibilities.

About the role

• Join our Performance &
  Observability team and be the subject matter expert for all performance-related queries in Displayr.
• Be an internal consultant when it comes to performance and monitoring, promoting industry standards and best practices.
• Ensure that we're improving our core platform in the most efficient and cost-effective manner.
• Work with stakeholders to identify key SLOs, and instrument our systems to measure them accurately.
• Identify performance bottlenecks in our core offering and plan the work required to address them.
• Works with the performance team to gather key performance metrics and instrument the code to measure them.
• Participate in the evaluation of new candidates for the engineering team as required.

About You

Essential:

• Minimum six years working as a software engineer. Should be an engineer not a consultant or a Sys Admin.
• Experience with production systems (operational, troubleshooting, debugging).
• You have a Degree in Computer Science or similar.
• You deeply understand the platforms and libraries you use.
• Your CV is full of achievements you are proud of.
• You are concise, clear, and courteous in your communication.
• You are curious and innovative.
• You take calculated risks and are not afraid of failure.
• You have a strong bias to action.

Desirable:

• Experience using Splunk.
  • Expertise in Splunk search language and query optimization.
  • Creating and managing Splunk dashboards and visualizations.
• Experience in a rapidly scaling or scaled tech company.
• Experience in performance optimization or part of a performance-focused team in a large system.

Our Tech Stack

• Front-end:
  TypeScript/JavaScript/React.
• Back-end:
  C#, SQL.
• Supporting systems:
  C#, Python, R, Rust, Node.Js.
• Platforms:
  Azure, AWS, Kubernetes.
• Splunk and Open-Telemetry.

Why Displayr?

• At Displayr you are not just a cog in a large engine. You'll be able to see the decisions you make have a tangible impact.
• If you want to work on big thorny problems that will build upon, test, and show off your exceptional technical skills, then you'll thrive at Displayr.
• Displayr is entirely bootstrapped and debt-free, so continues to grow safely
• Displayr has a high-trust environment, where you'll be given a serious degree of autonomy and flexibility.
• We prefer evidence over intuition, experience, and "
  Best practice"
  .
• We work hard to make the best idea win, not the idea of the most experienced person.
• International company - offices in Sydney, Chicago, and London.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary.
• Share options in the business (join a fast-growing company in its early stages).
• 14 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Relaxed workplace and culture.
• Flexible working hours.
• Full-time or Part-time roles available.
• $2000 Learning allowance to help you grow your skills.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Hybrid role - get the best of both worlds and work from our office in Pyrmont (with access to pool and tennis court) and your home office.

We believe that a workplace that welcomes a variety of perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds is important and will only push us to be better. We never discriminate based on gender, age, ethnic background, disability status, religion, or sexual orientation.