Job Description
About Envato
At Envato, everything we do is about empowering creatives to thrive.
We’re here to help creatives bring their ideas to life, supercharge their workflows, and equip them with an unparalleled toolkit they can use anywhere. With unlimited access to world-class assets, innovative AI tools, and hands-on tutorials, we deliver what creatives need today - and are continually evolving our offering. As AI transforms the creative landscape, we’re committed to building what’s next for the future.
We’re a purpose-driven company and we’ve long embraced flexible, inclusive ways of working. We’re proud of the connected culture we’ve built across our global team. Our values: Community Spirit, Build Our Future, Embrace Diversity, Make It Happen, and Make Envato Proud, guide everything we do, shaping how we work, grow, and succeed.
You can read more about us on our blog, including news of our acquisition by Shutterstock Inc in 2024.
About the role
The Lead Engineer supports the Engineering Manager and the wider engineering team to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of Envato’s underlying infrastructure. They will help the team think long-term about sustainable platform growth, drive infrastructure best practices, and uplift infrastructure skills across both the platform team and wider engineering organisation.
What you’ll be doing
Leading
Driving initiatives to improve reliability, performance and security
Educating the team so that they have the knowledge and skills to deliver reliable, performant and secure systems
Ensuring we’re improving continuously and learning from our incidents and near-misses
Communicating the strategy and vision to the team to ensure alignment
Infrastructure Engineering & Architecture
Design, build, and provision new infrastructure to support new products, initiatives and solve problems
Uses software development skills to create software that integrates infrastructure with services and APIs
Mentoring
Reviews code quality and coaches Engineers directly.
Shares insights and feedback with Engineering Manager
Availability
Works to increase the mean-time-between-failures and decrease the mean-time-to-repair of public-facing systems
Monitoring
Contributes to the improvement of the monitoring and measurement systems that support our operational scale and continuous delivery
Operations
Helps engineering teams to operate the systems required to deliver their products.
Is able to think ahead to solve operational problems before they become critical.
Emergency Response
Takes part in the roster to support the site after normal office hours
Troubleshoots live production issues
Facilitates the response to emergency situations
Reviews incidents and makes recommendations based on lessons learned
Performance, Efficiency & Latency
Contributes to the measurement techniques that assist in the performance tuning of the applications stack
Use the monitoring systems to help maintain application performance at acceptable levels
Recommends and implements performance improvements across the stack
Security & Risk
Participates in the ongoing process to identify and mitigate risk in Envato systems
Change Management
Participates in the development and maintenance of our applications and infrastructure
Provides support and advice to engineering teams delivering changes to production
Capacity Planning
Uses our monitoring to advise on capacity requirements
About you
Essential
Has automated failover scenarios
A commitment to continual learning
Has provided a positive contribution to both operations-focused and development-focused work
Contributes positively to a team through both synchronous and asynchronous communication
Has built and maintained cloud-based applications and infrastructure
Demonstrable knowledge of caching techniques
Has worked with CDN providers and or DDoS mitigation services to improve service performance and reliability
Has worked in a culture of shared responsibility between software developers and infrastructure specialists
Linux administration
Monitoring and logging tools
Passion for and experience in best practice systems operations tools and techniques
Public and private cloud-hosted infrastructure
SQL Database management
Supporting a large web-based application with global traffic
Has worked with tools and frameworks for automating infrastructure
Preferred
Has built self-healing systems
Has automated testing of failure scenarios
Has measurably improved the resilience of systems
Experience with AWS
Experience with CloudFlare
Experience with tools including Datadog, Rollbar and Sumologic
Experience in other agile environments
Application development experience
MySQL performance tuning and troubleshooting expertise (in Aurora a bonus)
Security and Risk identification, assessment and mitigation
The ability to provide security and risk assessment and actions for a large e-Commerce site
Experience with Cloudformation, Terraform, and the AWS CDK
Life at Envato
• Flexible Working: remote-first across Australia or New Zealand with flexibility for you to manage work and life as you need
• Work from Anywhere: apply to work in another location for up to 3 months per calendar year.
• Connection Budget: an annual budget to connect with the team IRL where and when possible.
• Learning Budget: study leave and an annual budget for you to put towards your learning and development.
• Home Office Allowance: a contribution towards your set-up and a monthly allowance to support work from home costs.
• Wellbeing: access to a holistic assistance program that provides support in many areas of life and health.
• Volunteer Leave: 2 days per calendar year to volunteer and give back to the community.
• Parental Leave:20 weeks paid primary carer leave, and 6 weeks paid secondary carers leave.
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