Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Blinq
Software Engineering
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Posted 6+ months ago
What is Blinq?
Blinq is building the fastest, most intuitive way to share who you are and remember who you meet. What started as the world’s #1 digital business card is now the starting point for over 50 million new relationships a year - and growing at unicorn pace.
Our vision is to build the world’s intelligence layer for professional relationships - one that remembers for you, prompts when it matters, and keeps you in play. If that’s the kind of scale and ambition you want to be part of, you’re in the right place.
Why You’ll Love It Here
• Rapid growth: Doubling ARR every few months, expanding our product surface, and rapidly building our team across Sydney, San Francisco, Melbourne, and New York.
• Well-resourced: $45m+ raised from the likes of Blackbird, Touring Capital, Hubspot Ventures, and Square Peg - we’re continuously investing in the people and tools that fuel our mission.
• A rare moment to join: We’re hitting an inflection point - big enough to have momentum, small enough for you to shape the journey.
• Customers love it: 140k+ reviews and a 4.9/5 rating on the App Store - people around the world rely on Blinq to make that first interaction count.
• We work in person, on purpose: We believe creativity and energy are better face-to-face - so we spend 3 days a week in the office and the rest where you work best.
Engineering at Blinq
Our engineering team is the engine behind Blinq’s success. We’re building tools that make sharing who you are instant and human. Every line of code, every release, and every experiment is focused on driving meaningful impact. If you thrive on solving complex, high-impact problems with a tight-knit team, you’ll feel right at home here.
Role & Impact
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Blinq, you’ll help lead the evolution of our infrastructure as we scale. You’ll work alongside our existing SRE and platform engineers to design resilient systems, automate deployment processes, and refine our approach to monitoring and incident response. Your impact will shape the performance, uptime, and reliability of the platform powering millions of first interactions.
What You’ll Do
- Design, implement, and maintain robust infrastructure that scales with global usage
- Define and track SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets and drive reliability improvements in partnership with product teams
- Improve and extend our on-call practices, observability tooling, and incident response systems
- Own our CI/CD architecture and deployment pipelines, optimising for speed, safety, and team autonomy
- Lead cross-functional initiatives to eliminate bottlenecks and proactively identify systemic risks
- Champion best practices across engineering for fault tolerance, security, and performance
What You’ll Bring
- 5+ years in an SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering role with deep understanding of distributed systems
- Proven ability to scale systems in production environments, including experience with high-availability architectures
- Expertise in monitoring, logging, and alerting systems and a sharp eye for what matters
- Strong experience with CI/CD systems, containerisation, and cloud infrastructure (GCP and AWS preferred)
- Familiarity with defining and managing SLOs and SLAs across complex systems
- A collaborative, mentoring mindset — someone who thrives on unblocking and upskilling others
- A strong sense of ownership and a bias toward continuous improvement
What You Get
We hold a high bar and move with intent. You’ll get the clarity, trust, and ownership to meet it - and a team that pushes to do the best work of our lives. We back that with:
• Equity & ownership: We’re building something massive, and we want you to share in the upside. Genuinely.
• Competitive salary & growth path: As Blinq grows, your role and compensation grow with it - no glass ceilings here.
• Generous paid time off: At least 20 days fully disconnect each year, with a flexible policy beyond that.
• Parental leave that grows with you: 12 to 26 weeks full pay, based on tenure.
• Free food: Enjoy daily breakfast and lunch at some of our offices, plus an always-stocked snack bar.
