Engineer - Developer Experience

at Culture Amp

Melbourne, Australia

Join us on our mission to make a better world of work.

Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,500 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day.

Culture Amp is backed by leading venture capital funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company.

For more information visit cultureamp.com.

How you can help create a better world of work

The Developer Experience team builds internal platforms and tooling that make Culture Amp engineers faster, safer, and happier. We’re a cross‑functional, internal‑facing group tackling systems‑heavy problems: local dev environments, CI/CD, frontend delivery, standards, and AI‑for‑coding enablement. Our work blends discovery, research, and hands‑on engineering to remove friction at scale.

Our team’s mission is to:

Accelerate developer productivity by building and maintaining internal tooling and platforms used across Culture Amp engineering
Enable high-quality, faster code delivery through AI-assisted coding, standards, and modern developer environments
Partner with engineers to discover pain points, run spikes, and design pragmatic solutions that scale

You Will

Own and improve local developer environments (nix/devbox) to bring production-like setups to laptops, including data population and Kafka-related workflows
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and front-end delivery infrastructure/CDN for multi-app routing and performance
Manage org-wide dependency updates with Renovate and evolve Backstage templates for new project bootstrapping
Collaborate on Python standards and package publishing; contribute Go (preferred) and/or Python services and tooling
Design and extend AI-for-coding tooling (prompts, context repos, MCP server integrations) to raise code quality and speed
Work closely with SRE and product teams on AWS/infrastructure-adjacent problems; do hands-on discovery, spikes, and systems programming
Communicate clearly, ask great questions, and help shape ambiguous problem spaces into actionable work

You Have

Solid programming fundamentals, language agnostic, experience in Go preferred; Python/TypeScript a plus
Interest in developer tooling, internal platforms, and SRE-adjacent work (AWS, CI/CD, Linux/Unix); curiosity to learn unfamiliar tech
Familiarity with or interest in CLI tools, systems programming, and reproducible dev environments (nix/devbox), experience helpful but not required
Strong communication skills and comfort operating with ambiguity; proactive in research, experimentation, and planning
Growth mindset with technical playfulness; eager to explore new tools and lead others through change

You Are

Motivated to learn and able to work with some autonomy, but seek support and feedback when needed.
Someone who loves collaboration our teams are cross-functional and you’ll work closely with other engineers from across the product group.

Aligned with our values, check them out on our website and demonstrate them through your working practice.

We believe that our employees are the heartbeat of our success. We're committed to fostering a work environment that truly cares for and develops its people, and creates lasting positive impact. In addition to providing a competitive compensation package, some of the key benefits we offer are:

Employee Share Options Program: We empower you to be an owner in Culture Amp and share in our success
Programs, coaching, and budgets to help you thrive personally and professionally
Access to external providers for mental wellbeing and coaching support to sustain the wellbeing, safety and development of our people
Monthly Camper Life Allowance: An automatic allowance paid out each month with your pay - you can spend it however you like to help improve your experience and life outside work
Team budgets dedicated to team building activities and connection
Intentional quarterly wellbeing pauses: A quarterly company-wide shutdown day in each region to to collectively pause, reset and focus on restoration and rest, without having to tap into individual vacation time
Extended year-end breaks: An extended refresh period at the end of year
Excellent parental leave and in work support program available from day 1 of joining Culture Amp
5 Social Impact Days a year to make a positive impact on the community outside of work
MacBooks for you to do your best & a work from home office budget to spend on setting up your home office
Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only)

Additionally, we don't just focus on our internal community; we believe in creating a better world of work for all. We're committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with Employee Resource Groups and ally communities in place.

We have a strong commitment to Anti-Racism, and endeavor to lead by example. Every step we make as a business towards anti-racism is another step we can take to support our customers in making a better world (of work). You can see our current commitments to Anti-Racism here.

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Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria – unlike majority candidates meeting significantly fewer requirements.

We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we'd love to know how you can amplify our team with your unique experience!

If you decide to apply, as part of your application, we will ask you to complete voluntary diversity questions (excluding roles in Germany). These questions are completely optional, but your participation truly helps. By sharing this anonymous information, you support our efforts to build a more inclusive and equitable hiring process—and help us hold ourselves accountable to that commitment. Your responses are entirely confidential and will not impact hiring decisions.

If you require reasonable accommodations or adjustments due to a disability to complete the online application or to participate in the interview process, please contact accommodations@cultureamp.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly. Culture Amp will retain your CV & personal information for a period of two years (four years for the US) from the date of your application process completion. Culture Amp may contact you in relation to future job opportunities during this time period. For further information please see our privacy policy here or contact privacy@cultureamp.com.