Avertro
Head of Software & Infrastructure Engineering
AvertroAustralia19 hours ago
Full-timeEngineering, Information Technology

We’re looking for a Head of Software & Infrastructure Engineering. If you are a Lead Full Stack / Infrastructure Engineer with leadership capabilities, and want to take the next step in your career, this is the exact role you've been searching for.


🚀 Ready to Level Up with a Venture-Backed Cybersecurity Startup?

Join Avertro, a venture-backed cybersecurity startup building a platform that empowers security leaders to manage cyber risk with confidence.


You must be a hands-on experienced senior engineer who can bring depth in cloud infrastructure, system design, and scalable application architecture; someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and wants to help shape how our platform grows.


You’ll work across the stack but with a strong focus on infrastructure elements. This is a role for a hands-on lead engineer who can connect the dots between backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and application delivery.


The Opportunity

As a senior member of our engineering team, you’ll build secure, scalable features across our modern platform. Owning and evolving key aspects of our infrastructure and platform architecture. Helping design and implement multi-tenant, secure, and scalable systems. And build and refine product features across both application and infrastructure layers. You’ll collaborate closely with our cross-functional team and cybersecurity experts to turn big ideas into polished user experiences. This is a chance to influence not just how we build, but what we build, and grow as a technical leader as we scale. You’ll join us at a critical growth stage, where our platform is live with enterprise customers and focusing on scaling our front-end architecture, enhancing performance, and rapidly delivering new features using React, MUI and Node.js.


🧩What You’ll Do

  • Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure and application features using React, Node.js, GraphQL, and AWS services.
  • Lead initiatives around customer identity management, tenancy, and secure data handling.
  • Help architect solutions that support AWS Marketplace integration and other third-party systems.
  • Contribute to infrastructure-as-code (IaC), CI/CD, and automated deployment pipelines.
  • Translate product requirements into scalable, secure, and maintainable technical solutions.
  • Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to design, develop and deploy software solutions.
  • Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and architectural discussions.
  • Champion best practices around security, scalability, and observability.
  • Contribute to the evolution of our platform as we tackle new challenges.


🔍 What We’re Looking For

  • Proven experience in both full stack and cloud/infrastructure engineering.
  • Strong technical depth with React, Node.js, GraphQL, and AWS (Lambda, ECS, CloudFormation, etc.).
  • Experience with multi-tenant application designcustomer identity management, and/or marketplace integrations.
  • Comfortable taking architectural ownership and mentoring others.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD, version control (Git), and secure development practices.
  • A proactive, collaborative approach and excellent communication skills.


 Bonus Points

  • Experience with AWS Marketplace integrationsOAuth/OpenID, or API gateway design.
  • Background in cybersecurity or working within regulated industries.
  • Familiarity with compliance and regulatory frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR).
  • Previous startup or scale-up experience.


💥 Why You’ll Love Working With Us

  • Be part of a venture-backed startup solving one of cybersecurity’s biggest gaps.
  • Join a collaborative, high-trust team that values autonomy and curiosity.
  • Flexible working hours as long as you meet your commitments.
  • Competitive package: salary and equity options.
  • Influence the product and strategic direction of the company as one of our early hires.
  • Grow with us: Your career will progress in line with the company’s growth.
  • You’ll work directly with our leadership team, and collaborate with a cross-functional team of security and engineering professionals.
  • We offer team events and offsites and the potential to join our President’s club.
  • Our vibe? We get sh*t done, call it like it is, stay laser-focused on problems worth solving, obsess over our users, and work with good humans only.


✨ Interested?

If you love solving complex problems and want your work to have real-world impact, we’d love to hear from you.


Please note:

  • We do not support visa sponsorship.
  • Ensure your CV does not exceed 2 pages.
  • Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.


No agencies, please.

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