Principal Platform Software Engineer

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Who We Are

Telstra is Australia’s leading telecommunications and technology company spanning over a century with a footprint in over 20+ countries. In India, we’re building a platform for innovative delivery and engagement that will strengthen our position as an industry leader. We’ve grown quickly since our inception in 2019, now with offices in Pune, Hyderabad and Bangalore.

Focus of the Role

As a Principal Platform Software Engineer, your pioneer and lead the design of software solutions to ensure our software engineering capability and output is world class. You influence a diverse set of stakeholders and team members to shape and deliver complex and high value programs of work. Your deep technical skills and experience in leading the software development lifecycle, continuous learning mindset, and focus on team leadership are critical to success in this role.

What We Offer

• Flex appeal: choose where, when and how you work
• Performance-related pay
• Access to thousands of learning programs so you can level-up
• Global presence across 22 countries; opportunities to work where we do business.
• Up to 26 weeks maternity leave provided to the birth mother with benefits for all child births
• Employees are entitled to 12 paid holidays per calendar year                      
• Eligible employees are entitled to 12 days of paid sick / casual leave per calendar year
• Relocation support options across India, from junior to senior positions within the company
• Receive insurance benefits such as medical, accidental and life insurances

What You’ll Do

Product & Technology - Software Engineering & IT develops and maintains Telstra's software and IT systems, working on some really cutting-edge technologies.

• Be accountable for the quality and outcomes of an engineering initiative or domain spanning several key platforms or portfolios of microservices within Platforms Software Engineering. This will include influencing end to end architecture and systems to work effectively.
• Be hands-on where needed and be able to drive a range of activities from proof of concept, to design review, to helping in operational emergencies, where existing teams are unable to drive break through thinking.
• Be ‘polyglot’ and comfortable in rapidly upskilling in different technologies to help bring modern software engineering into practice (this may sometimes be legacy, SaaS, or completely new tech such as GenAI.
• Be comfortable working in spaces between and across teams and be able to drive decision making based on software engineering design principles (as opposed to delivery/timing constraints alone) that balance these different area’s needs.
• Partner with product owners to inform and shape roadmaps, ensuring proper prioritisation of engineering/technical scope. Use your strong stakeholder management skills to be able to align stakeholders at executive level around trade-offs.
• Provide guidance in the software architecture, solution design and software engineering of products and platforms. Be able to develop approaches and solutions to the most complex design areas that arise, especially around performance and security and specific business impacts of software engineering decisions.
• Build strong commercial capability across multiple teams by modelling commercial thinking, balancing cost and value to decide the most economic action the delivers good outcomes. Experience of working across a range of stakeholders from networks to customer-facing channels and operations is essential.
• Influence organization wide testing strategy and work with teams by using quality metrics to find gaps and recommend solutions that follow accepted testing frameworks and the testing pyramid. Have good understanding of testing platforms and frameworks (both functional and non-functional) and how their use is tailored to missions with large numbers of feature teams working within a single mission. Collaborate in extending testing Telstra frameworks as required to support new use cases.
• Maintain an extremely elevated level of capability in platform software engineering, including new and emerging technologies, tools, approaches, and processes so that you can model continuous learning and actively provide coaching and mentoring of other software engineering team members.
• Consistently ensure delivery of production-ready code that accounts for edge cases and errors.
• Use systematic debugging to diagnose all issues within a set of related domains.

About You

• Deep experience working in an DevOps and/or Engineering role and has expertise with a variety of development languages, deployment, automation, and configuration management tools.
• Strong experience with APIs and algorithms
• Practical experience with capability development, cloud native development, code review, defensive coding, secure coding
• Experience with Test management and automation.
• Practical experience with Continuous Integration and Delivery pipelines. Enhancing and improving CI/CD capabilities to reduce cycle time while retaining quality.
• Experience in delivering projects as part of an agile team.
• Excellent leadership skills with a focus on coaching, strong decision making and ability to align the vision and strategy.
• Excellent written and verbal communication plus time management skills
• Willingness to learn new technologies and keen to drive innovation.
• Be adept working in a matrix, mentoring staff engineers and software engineering leaders.

If you enjoy collaborating with different people and delivering amazing experiences for the customer, we want to hear from you!

When you join our team, you become part of a welcoming and inclusive community where everyone is respected, valued and celebrated. We actively seek individuals from various backgrounds, ethnicities, genders and abilities because we know that diversity not only strengthens our team but also enriches our work. We have zero tolerance for harassment of any kind, and we prioritise creating a workplace culture where everyone is safe and can thrive. 

We work flexibly at Telstra. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you. When you apply, you can share your pronouns and / or any reasonable adjustments needed to take part equitably during the recruitment process.