Lead Platform Engineer
Midnite, Australia
The role
👀 The Role
What you will do
As a Lead Platform Engineer, you will
- Design, build, and improve backend and platform systems that support Midnite’s core product.
- Work on complex platform problems across scalability, reliability, service isolation, and regional readiness.
- Help define clean boundaries and interfaces across existing services and data flows.
- Contribute to systems that support multi-region and future market expansion.
- Improve observability, deployment practices, performance, and operational maturity.
- Work across app-layer systems and platform foundations, with support from the team on deeper infrastructure areas where needed.
- Contribute production code, reviews, and technical design as part of day-to-day delivery.
- Help identify failure points, reduce risk, and make the platform more resilient as usage grows.