Nine is Australia’s largest locally owned media company with investments spanning television, video on demand, print, digital, and radio. Nine’s assets include the Nine Television Network, video on demand platform 9Now, talkback radio stations 2GB, 3AW, 4BC and 6PR, major mastheads such as The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Australian Financial Review, digital properties such as nine.com.au, 9Honey, Pedestrian.TV and CarAdvice, subscription video platform Stan, and majority investments in Domain and Future Women.

When it comes to connecting brands with the passions of Australians, there’s no other media company like Nine. Nine lives at the intersection of Australia’s best content, conversation and culture. We are a leading multi-platform media network, engaging an audience of 14 million users across news, business & finance, lifestyle, entertainment & sport.

The Productivity engineering team is passionate about building solutions that enhance and strengthen Nine Engineering’s product development and delivery capabilities. We combine software and tools to help support our fellow engineers to increase their development efficiency and performance.

As a Software Engineer working across the broader Engineering team, you will build high quality, scalable solutions, and share your best practice software design and development skills with engineers to maximize their impact. 

Our tech stack includes Golang, Python, Node.js, Kubernetes, Concourse, and Open Telemetry. As a team we’re tech agnostic, guided by the best technology solution for the situation. 

Your responsibilities will include:

• Collaborating with the engineering team to understand opportunities to increase productivity and performance. 

• Design, develop and implement solutions including new tools to improve reporting, automating a development process, or implementing a whole new platform.

• Collaborating with Product Platforms, Platform Engineering, Architecture, Security, and others to support their work designing, developing, and launching new products and services.

• Be a technical go-to person for team members interested in increasing productivity

Essential experience & skills

• Previous experience as a backend or DevOps engineer  building developer tools and APIs

• An interest in automation and infrastructure-as-code

• Experience in backend frameworks such as : Golang, Python, Node.js, 

• Experience in Kubernetes (k8s), CICD pipelines (Concourse, TeamCity, Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis, CI) and Open Telemetry

• Experience in metrics tooling (prometheus), logging tools (kibana), tracing tools (Jaeger, Honeycomb.io)

• Experience in Cloud Computing Platforms (AWS, Google Cloud Compute)

• Experience building APIs and command line tools
   

Within the greater engineering team we have intentionally fostered a dynamic working environment and collaborative team culture. We support individual goals and personal growth through coaching, mentoring and ongoing training. As part of our commitment to inclusion we support flexible work schedules and locations.

Corporate perks and benefits include:

• Career development and quality training
• Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary carer
• Discounts on lifestyle, entertainment, and leisure memberships, including health insurance, dental and gym
• Access to Future Women – a movement to help women connect, learn and lead through unique content and events.
• Discounts on products and services with corporate partners including Samsung, Apple, JB HI-FI, HP, Hertz Car Hire and TFE Hotels

Nine embraces all aspects of diversity & inclusion and is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of customers, audiences and communities we serve.

Media is a fast-changing environment that provides interesting engineering challenges working at scale. Don't miss the opportunity to be a part of this team.