Staff Backend Engineer – Communication Team

📋 Description

• Designing and building fault-tolerant systems that handle millions of real-time messages from
• Scaling infrastructure to support rapid device growth and global expansion, using AWS-native tools
• Continuously improving reliability, observability, and fault-tolerance across our messaging and
• Lead troubleshooting complex, cross-functional issues — partnering with firmware, hardware, and
• Owning and leading technical projects — scoping out work, designing specs, distributing tasks
• Building highly reliable automation to make our collar & tower deployments zero touch and a

🎯 Requirements

• A seasoned backend engineer who’s scaled distributed systems in production
• Preferably fluent in AWS, or experience with other modern cloud infrastructure
• Familiar with tools like Terraform, load testing frameworks, and chaos engineering practices
• Comfortable working with messaging protocols like MQTT, TCP/IP, and cloud-native messaging systems
• Strong debugging skills and a deep understanding of system behaviour, who uses data to drive their
• Comfortable owning high-uptime systems — because cows don’t take days off.

🎁 Benefits

• Delicious snacks and drinks are available for your daily flow.
• Healthy body, healthy mind. We’re partnered with Southern Cross Health Insurance to support your
• We offer 6 months of fully paid parental leave for primary caregivers, 4 weeks of fully paid
• Our personal growth is important. Halter offers an annual $1000 self-development budget to be used
• Our time to recharge is valued, we’re offered wellness leave and unlimited paid annual leave.
• Importantly, we offer an inclusive and attractive remuneration package made up of salary, benefits