Big Wave Digital
🎅 Senior SRE, Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Sydney Hybrid, up to $180k + super + stock options ❄️🛷
Big Wave DigitalAustralia17 hours ago
Full-timeRemote FriendlyInformation Technology

Want to join a fast-paced SaaS start-up that’s scaling for real, not just “aspirational scaling” on a pitch deck 🎯


This is the kind of role where you get proper ownership, real impact, and the chance to help shape how reliability is done as the platform grows globally 🌍⚙️


Sydney, hybrid, 3 days a week in the office with smart, ambitious, fun, engaged people who know they’re building something bigger 🏙️✨


💰 Up to $180k + super + stock options 🎁📈


⏱️ Start ASAP, as fast as Santa’s sleigh on Christmas Eve 🛷💨


🎄 The role, Senior SRE, Senior Site Reliability Engineer


This is a hands-on Senior SRE role with a big production focus at the start, then quickly evolving into a stronger Senior Site Reliability Engineer function as you shape the way the team runs.

You’ll be the person who turns “we should have a better on-call model” into “we do, and it works” 📘✅


You’ll also be the escalation point when customers hit issues that need deeper investigation than standard support can do, think logs, data, platform behaviour, and real root cause analysis 🔍🧠


Over time, you’ll help build a follow-the-sun rhythm, and the role is likely to grow into leading capability, including adding support across EU or US time zones 🌍🕒


🧩 What you’ll be doing


  • Owning production incidents end to end, triage, coordination, comms, resolution, and learning loops 🚨✅
  • Building and improving on-call and incident response patterns, runbooks, escalation paths, and reliability habits 🛠️📘
  • Doing deep technical investigations across logs, data stores, and service behaviour, especially when the answer isn’t obvious 🔍🧠
  • Troubleshooting modern Node.js and TypeScript services, plus complex API integrations 🧩⚙️
  • Working in AWS serverless environments, monitoring, alerting, caching, storage, search, and the systems that keep a SaaS platform fast and reliable ☁️🔭
  • Supporting issues that surface in mobile ecosystems too, iOS and Android, app to backend behaviours, weird edge cases 📱🔧
  • Partnering closely with engineering and product, helping teams ship fast without breaking trust 🌪️🤝


🎯 What we’re looking for


  • A proven self-starter who’s comfortable operating in ambiguity, you see a messy situation and you create clarity and momentum 🧠⚡
  • Strong troubleshooting and root cause instincts, you can navigate data and logs confidently 🔍
  • Around 6+ years in production facing roles like SRE, Senior SRE, production engineering, platform ops, or technical support for complex systems 🧰
  • Calm, clear incident leadership, you’ve handled high severity production events before 🚨🧯
  • Great communication with cross-functional teams, especially when it’s high stakes ✍️
  • Bonus points for experience with observability tooling, CI/CD and deployment troubleshooting, React or React Native familiarity, and legacy environments when needed 📈🧪🧑 💻🪟


🎄 Why you’ll like it


  • High impact Senior SRE role, you’ll actually shape the model, not inherit a finished system
  • Fast-paced SaaS start-up energy, big ownership, big learning, real growth
  • Strong team culture, smart people, no passengers
  • Stock options, because if you help build it, you should share the upside 📈✨


📩 Email Keiran, [email protected], or apply via the job advert 🎄❄️🚀

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