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Black Nova Portfolio · Breadcrumb · Melbourne Portfolio Companies · Hybrid

SRE - Breadcrumb

We're Breadcrumb.

We create safer, smarter construction sites by putting the right technology in every worker’s hands.

Breadcrumb is in the pockets of over 1 million workers globally and trusted on more than 50,000 construction projects in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.

We're a construction technology SaaS company, headquartered in Melbourne with offices in London and San Francisco. Our mission is to build safer, more efficient construction sites by replacing paper processes with a digital tool that reduces risk and improves compliance. Over the past four years, Breadcrumb has grown from a start-up of 15 people to a global team of 60. We service over 1,000 construction companies and 1.5 million workers across ANZ, UKI, and North America.

We know that workers are at the heart of the Construction industry, so we turn everyday site processes into genuine engagements with safety and real-time data points for managers. Breadcrumb is a platform which embeds a culture of safety through daily engagement, real-time data & communication. We have a Worker-first mission for both our product and our team, and we’ve worked hard to build a positive culture with a focus on performance, inclusion and diversity. We want people to succeed in their roles while having a good time.

We're hiring an SRE

Trust and experimentation are key to the Engineering culture at Breadcrumb. With a no-blame culture and individual ownership, there is low gatekeeping for changes and abundant opportunity to experiment with new ideas.

As part of our team, you wil take the lead in shaping the stability, performance, and evolution of our platform. This is very much a hands-on, technically deep role where you’ll own critical infrastructure, influence engineering practices, and help us build the foundations of a world-class tech organisation. If you love solving complex problems and are keen to help drive engineering excellence in a high-growth environment, we’d love to meet you.

What You'll Do

  • Maintain, improve, and modernise our Development, QA, Staging & Production environments, CI/CD platforms, delivery pipelines and artifact storage systems.

  • Deploy, upgrade, and tune internal tooling and shared services for engineering teams.

  • Ensure reliability and performance across our tech stack through patching, observability improvements, incident response, and proactive monitoring.

  • Dig deep into unfamiliar areas when needed - solving real-world problems with pragmatism and curiosity.

  • Lead infrastructure migrations, security hardening initiatives, and platform upgrades.

  • Build internal tooling that enhances developer experience and reduces operational friction.

  • Select and implement appropriate deployment strategies such as blue-green and canary release patterns by collaborating with development squads and commercial teams.

  • Improve validation earlier in the delivery lifecycle, strengthen testability of systems, and reduce the chances of production issues.

  • Influence engineering squads with best practice guidance across software delivery, infrastructure, and reliability.

  • Provide expert support to product teams, promoting scalability, performance, automation, and reliability thinking.

  • Coach engineering teams and help build DevOps/SRE maturity across the business.

  • Evaluate new technologies, contribute ideas, test solutions, and help shape the long-term engineering roadmap.

  • Continuously refine our infrastructure to stay modern, secure, developer-friendly, and cost-effective.

The Skills and Experience you'll bring

  • Have solid experience across both software and infrastructure - ideally with strong Infrastructure as Code experience with tools like Pulumi or Terraform. C# and/or TypeScript experience is a bonus.

  • Have built and maintained delivery pipelines of various shapes and constraints.

  • Understand the full software development lifecycle and have partnered closely with product engineers.

  • Have experience in high-availability SaaS platforms.

  • Can design, maintain, and troubleshoot Kubernetes, containers, cloud services, and CI/CD pipelines.

  • Are strong with *nix fundamentals and comfortable with tools like bash, grep, sed, jq, curl, or equivalent.

  • Are comfortable supporting engineers, answering technical questions, and advising on best practices and enjoy supporting others.

  • Enjoy switching contexts and tackling a wide range of practical engineering problems.

  • Can work independently while being deeply collaborative, pragmatic, and solutions-first.

  • Stay curious, evaluate new tech thoughtfully, and love automation wherever it makes sense.

Bonus Points For:

  • Experience with Azure and AWS.

  • Exposure to security engineering and partnering with security teams.

  • Prior scale-up or startup experience (you enjoy speed, ambiguity, and impact).

Division
Black Nova Portfolio
Department
Breadcrumb
Locations
Melbourne Portfolio Companies
Remote status
Hybrid
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Black Nova Portfolio · Breadcrumb · Melbourne Portfolio Companies · Hybrid

SRE - Breadcrumb

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