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title: 'Senior Platform Engineer at Traild'
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# Senior Platform Engineer at Traild

- **Company:** Traild
- **Location:** Australia
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/traildsoftware/4b798c57-0865-4412-9b93-bda3dd54b392

## 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: Senior Platform Engineer

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to join our Platform team. This role sits at the intersection of infrastructure, developer experience, and reliability, with end-to-end ownership across how our platform is built, deployed, observed, and operated in production.

You’ll design and maintain Traild’s cloud-native platform, ensuring it is secure, scalable, reliable, and easy for engineers to work with. This is a highly trusted role, involved from early architectural discussions through to deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement. You’ll collaborate closely with product, application, and infrastructure teams to accelerate delivery, reduce friction, and maintain high availability across multiple cloud regions.

What You’ll Work On: Platform & InfrastructureDesign, implement, and scale infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).Build and manage infrastructure as code using Terraform.Operate Cloud Run and Kubernetes in production at scale.Architect and manage cloud networking, including VPCs, load balancers, firewalls, routing, and service meshes.Embed security best practices across infrastructure, deployments, and platform tooling. Developer Experience & Tooling Design, build, and maintain internal developer tooling that improves code quality, delivery speed, and reliability. Own the CI/CD pipeline, enabling automated testing, safe deployments, and fast feedback loops. Improve local development workflows and ensure strong parity between development and production environments. Establish and evolve best practices for build systems, deployment automation, and platform standards. Observability & Reliability Own observability systems, including logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting, to improve visibility and incident response. Drive initiatives to reduce time-to-deploy and mean-time-to-recovery (MTTR). Improve platform performance, resilience, and cost efficiency through thoughtful automation and optimisation. What We’re Looking For: Strong experience with GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Cloud Run. Solid understanding of cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, and microservices. Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, ArgoCD). Strong background in observability (logging, monitoring, alerting). Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar for automation and tooling. Deep understanding of cloud security, identity management, and secure delivery practices. Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills across infrastructure, platforms, and build pipelines. A collaborative, customer-focused mindset with a passion for enabling others to ship faster with confidence. Candidates based in Melbourne are highly preferred for in-person collaboration and brainstorming. Nice to have: Experience with developer portals or internal platform tooling. Background in platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps. Experience supporting production-grade, multi-tenant SaaS platforms. Familiarity with secure software supply chains and build provenance. Experience with Linux systems. Exposure to ERP integrations or financial systems.

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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