Executive SRE

Join us in our User Access Management (UAM) transformation journey where we have exciting opportunities for engineers to innovate, design, build, and maintain solutions. Our team ensures reliable, efficient UAM systems by solving operational challenges with code whilst driving automation, continuous improvement, and collaboration.

At Macquarie, our advantage is bringing together diverse people and empowering them to shape all kinds of possibilities. We are a global financial services group operating in 31 markets and with 56 years of unbroken profitability. You’ll be part of a friendly and supportive team where everyone - no matter what role - contributes ideas and drives outcomes.

What role will you play?

We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with a software-first mindset to design and operate large-scale, distributed systems powering our identity applications. You will use your expertise in Go, Python, or Java, along with knowledge of distributed systems, networking, and Linux internals, to deliver robust and reliable solutions. The role involves automating deployment, monitoring, and recovery using tools like Kubernetes, gRPC, and cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP, as well as leveraging observability tooling like Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry for production debugging. You are curious about how complex systems fail and committed to building resilient, scalable services through continuous improvement and collaboration.

What You Offer

• Proven experience (4+ years) in software engineering or reliability roles, with expertise in defining and measuring SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets, as well as reduce operational load through automation and intelligent alerting
• Strong ability to design scalable, reliable systems and evaluate architectural choices for latency and performance
• Proficient in building automation tools and services using Python, Go, or similar languages, including self-healing and auto-scaling capabilities
• Skilled in maintaining high-quality documentation and runbooks through code generation and automation; ability to improve mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to recover (MTTR)
• Competency in monitoring and developing insight into system performance through metrics, tracing and logs, as well as forecasting and optimizing resource usage across compute, storage, and networking
• Demonstrative ability to improve efficiency through data-driven scaling and performance tuning
  
  

We love hearing from anyone inspired to build a better future with us, if youre excited about the role or working at Macquarie we encourage you to apply.

What We Offer

Benefits

At Macquarie, you’re empowered to shape a career that’s rewarding in all the ways that matter most to you. Macquarie employees can access a wide range of benefits which, depending on eligibility criteria, include:

• 1 wellbeing leave day per year
• 26 weeks’ paid maternity leave or 20 weeks’ paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of paid transition leave upon return to work and 6 weeks’ paid leave for secondary caregivers
• Company-subsidised childcare services
• 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching
• Benefits to support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing including comprehensive medical and life insurance cover, the option to join parental medical insurance plan and virtual medical consultations extended to family members
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program, a robust behavioural health network with counselling and coaching services
• Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role
• Reimbursement for work from home equipment
  
  

About Technology

Technology enables every aspect of Macquarie, for our people, our customers and our communities. We’re a global team that is passionate about accelerating the digital enterprise, connecting people and data, building platforms and applications and designing tomorrow’s technology solutions.

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion

We are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and welcome all identities, including race, ethnicity, cultural identity, nationality, gender (including gender identity or expression), age, sexual orientation, marital or partnership status, parental, caregiving or family status, neurodiversity, religion or belief, disability, or socio-economic background. We welcome further discussions on how you can feel included and belong at Macquarie as you progress through our recruitment process.

Our aim is to provide reasonable adjustments to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and through working arrangements. If you require additional assistance, please let us know in the application process.

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