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title: 'Principal Engineer, Platform at Traild'
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# Principal Engineer, Platform at Traild

- **Company:** Traild
- **Location:** Australia
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/traildsoftware/49841acc-3824-4731-aa20-6d6a907c44c6

## Job description

Traild: Who are we? Traild is a high-growth SaaS company redefining how finance teams operate, combining AI, automation, and payments infrastructure to power the future of B2B finance. Every year, businesses lose billions to fraud, errors, and mistakes. Traild exists to solve this at scale, helping finance teams move faster, stay in control, and operate with confidence. With rapid customer growth, global expansion across APAC, North America and EMEA, and continued investment in product innovation, we are at a defining stage of our journey. This is an opportunity to help shape the next category leader in finance automation, control and security, building technology that transforms how businesses manage, move, and protect money. At the core of this is a powerful AI-driven platform, enabling finance teams to deploy intelligent agents that do the work, surface risk in real time, and continuously improve how financial operations run. Traild is building the infrastructure behind modern finance, protecting and powering meaningful volumes of the world’s B2B transactions. If you’re excited by high growth, real ownership, and building something that matters, Traild is the place to do the most impactful work of your career. Hear how Traild customers speak about us here.

The Role: Want to be a part of our exciting growth journey? We are looking for a hands-on technical leader to join our Platform Engineering team, where you will set the direction for the cloud infrastructure and developer platforms that every product at Traild is built on. You will lead a small team of platform engineers while staying close to the code, owning our GCP infrastructure, networking, compute and storage, CI/CD, observability, infrastructure-as-code, developer experience and FinOps. The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, strong technical judgement to independently shape strategy and direction, and a genuine track record of growing engineers. Platform Engineering sits at the centre of our technology organisation. When Platform works well, every other engineering team ships faster and more safely. When it does not, everyone feels it. This is a small team of three, growing to around five. Platform roadmap is yours to define. You define what Platform invests in, what it automates, what it stops doing, and you make that case to the rest of engineering and to the executive team. This role spans both the architecture and the people, and it's built that way on purpose. You'll sit in design reviews and shape the outcome, pick up a hard problem yourself when it counts, and still show up for five engineers as their manager when it matters. If both halves appeal to you, this is the right role. If you want one and not the other, it is not.

## Key Responsibilities

Set the technical direction and roadmap for Platform and set the case for it directly to the teams who depend on you. Own the reliability, performance and cost of Traild’s GCP footprint, including networking, compute, storage and the infrastructure-as-code that describes it. Improve the developer experience: CI/CD pipelines, build and deploy tooling, observability, and the day-to-day friction that slows other engineers down. Stay hands-on as a working member of the team, rather than an occasional contributor. Hold the technical bar through design review, code review, and the standards you set by example. Grow and support around five engineers, including hiring as the team expands. Own operational health and incident response for the foundations the whole product runs on.

## Who You Are

The Perks of Working at Traild Flexibility: we offer a range of remote, hybrid and flexible working options. Global team: we are growing across APAC, NA and EMEA and have team all across the world.

## About Traild

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Traild provides a cloud-based Accounts Payable automation platform with fraud prevention, helping businesses streamline financial operations and secure payments.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; total funding AUD 50,000)
- **Headquarters**: Denver, Colorado, United States (with additional offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Tel Aviv, and London)
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services – Accounts Payable (AP) automation and payment security
- **Target customers**: B2B; mid-market to enterprise companies across manufacturing, distribution, construction, healthcare, agriculture, energy, and mining
- **Mission / purpose**: “To protect you, without slowing you down” – unlocking effortless efficiency and seamless security for finance teams

## Products & Services
- **Traild Platform (Fuse, Fortify, Focus)**: A cloud-based Accounts Payable solution that deeply integrates with ERPs and accounting systems. It comprises three core capabilities:
  - **Fuse**: Real-time, two-way integration that is plug-and-play and intuitive.
  - **Fortify**: A fraud-prevention-first layer using network intelligence, behavioral analysis, and risk insights to detect errors and fraud.
  - **Focus**: AI-driven automation that handles routine finance tasks, surfaces insights, and highlights anomalies.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – AUD 50,000 (across multiple seed rounds; last round in May 2021)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Investor names not publicly listed; grant funding received (source not specified)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Employee headcount: 193 (169.2% YoY growth)
  - Active job postings: 45 (up 136.8% YoY)
  - Global presence across North America, APAC, and EMEA
  - LinkedIn followers: 10,735 (+130.2% yearly)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Fraud-prevention-first design**: Unlike competitors that prioritize speed, Traild embeds security at the core, protecting against scams and errors.
- **Deep ERP integration**: Seamless two-way integration that feels like a native extension of existing systems.
- **AI & Machine Learning**: Automates routine tasks and provides anomaly detection, giving finance leaders real-time visibility and control.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue global expansion (already in US, Australia, UK, Israel, Canada, and more)
- Scale the engineering and go-to-market teams (45 open roles as of early 2026)
- Enhance platform capabilities with AI-driven insights and fraud detection
- Deepen integrations with major ERPs and accounting systems

## Why Work Here
- **Flexibility**: Remote, hybrid, and flexible working options available
- **Global team**: Colleagues across 14 countries, offering a diverse and collaborative environment
- **Culture**: Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS) of 82 in 2025, indicating high engagement
- **Hiring process**: Structured steps including screening call, technical assessment, and culture interview; final stage includes reference and background checks
- **Notable perks**: Emphasis on work-life balance, career growth, and a mission-driven team focused on protecting businesses

## Sources
1. [jobs.lever.co/traildsoftware](https://jobs.lever.co/traildsoftware)
2. [linkedin.com/company/traild](https://linkedin.com/company/traild)
3. [traildsoftware.com/about-us/](https://traildsoftware.com/about-us/)
4. [traildsoftware.com/careers/](https://traildsoftware.com/careers/)
5. [cbinsights.com/company/traild](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/traild)

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