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Atticus is seeking an exceptional platform engineer to join a small, high-trust team reporting directly to the technical founders. We are on a mission to bring more truth to the world of business, by building premium tools that empower people working in regulated environments to do their jobs better. We care about having a great workplace culture, designing things of beauty, engineering quality, and solving real problems for our customers. We also don’t take ourselves too seriously.
Our document review and verification software is used by the world’s largest law firms and listed entities, enabling them to seamlessly fact-check documents before public disclosure. It is a deeply consequential space—our users’ work is central to the function of global markets and the rule of law, with a lot of edge cases and human pain, and it’s underserved in tech. Maintaining trust and good security are paramount in everything we do.
We want Atticus to be the best place you’ve ever worked. We do this by:
- Being selective about who we hire, and making sure they share our values
- Giving people control over how and where they work (100% remote friendly)
- Investing in our people, and providing them with growth opportunities
- Growing sustainably as a company (Atticus is completely bootstrapped)
- Clearly articulating our company goals to everyone (the relative importance of any two tasks should be derivable from company goals)
- Focusing on engineering and design quality (we have high user buy-in, and things don’t break in the night)
- Generous compensation ($155,000-190,000 AUD + equity, dependent on experience and location)
- Be a champion of workplace culture
- Be an intentional communicator
- Stay humble and grounded
- Prioritise ruthlessly, and bias towards action
- Work hard when you are working, but
- Switch off and recharge when you’re not
This role has two main areas of focus: the performance and reliability of the Atticus platform, and accelerating software development and delivery. You’ll also have the ownership and freedom to propose and implement broader changes across the technical environment. Your responsibilities will include:
- Designing and administering our cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines with the resources and freedom to build the architecture of your dreams.
- Building systems that enable us to meet the security, performance, and reliability expectations of our customers.
- Ensuring that features and fixes are deployed rapidly and reliably to production.
- Working directly with the software engineering team in designing and provisioning cloud infrastructure as our data scales and products evolve.
- Maintaining a cool-head and steady-hand when things go awry. Then leading the post-mortem to ensure we understand the root cause and don’t get stung by the issue again
- Participating in the team's on-call rotation, and being available to respond and resolve critical issues (don’t worry, this is rare).
You should be a number of years into your career and feel as comfortable at the command line as you are with a mouse. We're looking for someone with:
- 4+ years of experience administering servers and cloud infrastructure.
- AWS fluency using configuration-as-code tooling.
- Strong systems engineering skills with focus on failure-resilient and scalable architectures.
- The ability to collaborate with others on large projects.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills and ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical people.
- Proactivity: acting without being tasked and making decisions with minimal supervision.
- Openness to giving and receiving feedback.
- Familiarity with secure cloud environments and a commitment to information security.
- A belief that everything can be automated.
You should have experience with some or all of the tools that we use:
- System administration: Debian, CentOS, and Docker
- AWS: VPC, EC2, S3, CodePipeline, CloudWatch, Systems Manager
- Environment provisioning and configuration: packer and terraform
- Service and server orchestration: GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, and ansible
Please apply, even if you’re not certain you’re a perfect fit—give us the chance to meet you. If you have questions, feel free to reach out to careers@atticus.tech, but we’ll probably just say “sure, apply!”. On receiving your application, we’ll follow up with an outline of our process so you know what to expect.
P.S We tried keeping this brief, but will reward those of you who got this far with an assortment of semi-random facts:
- We are a Melbourne, Australia based legal technology startup founded in 2017 by two engineers and a lawyer turned school teacher turned lawyer again
- We build a web application for document review that’s used by 80% of the Australian legal market, 30% of the UK Top 30 law firms, and 35% of the ASX Top 50
- We have a dog-friendly Collingwood office that you can work from if you’re in Melbourne, and fly remote people to visit once a quarter
- About 50% of our people work fully remote. We are located in Victoria, Perth, Adelaide, Queensland, London and Toronto
- 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers
- We care about output over hours. High performance looks like working together competently and efficiently, and having enough time and energy left over to enjoy the rest of life
- Everyone gets 5 weeks off a year, as well as birthday leave
- On starting, you’ll get AUD$2000 to build your own great work-from-home setup
- We have a generous professional development program, so generous that the details are sensitive
- Read more about working with us on our
