The Company
Netcraft is the global leader in cybercrime detection and disruption. We’re a trusted partner for three of the four largest companies in the world, twelve of the fifty largest banks, and five country governments. We'veblocked almost 200 million cyber-attacks to date, and we take down around 33% of the world's phishing attacks.

Our purpose and passion are focused on just one thing: protecting the world from cybercrime.

We carry that passion through into our workplace too. Our people are highly talented, and everyone is valued for their individual contribution, so we make sure Netcraft is a great place to work. From great benefits to health and wellness and social events, we’ve got you covered.

The role

We’re searching for a Software Engineer to join our growing engineering team. Based in Melbourne, you’ll report to one of our Engineering Team Leads and work on the backend of our broad range of Internet exploration and cybercrime detection and disruption services.

A key part of this role is building, maintaining, and improving the applications that support our core services. We’re looking for engineers who take ownership of production systems and care deeply about reliability, performance, and stability, while also contributing to ongoing improvements across the stack.

Day to day, you’ll be

• Designing and developing new features and improvements to our products, while taking non-functional requirements like performance, reliability, and security into account.

• Developing different scrapers for different sites/endpoints.

• Maintaining and improving existing systems (based on different languages like Go/Typescript etc), ensuring stability, maintainability, and operational reliability.

• Testing and documenting your work to a high standard with strong attention to detail.

• Taking responsibility for system maintenance, operational stability, and incident prevention.

• Responding to issues with a sense of urgency and ownership, identifying root causes and implementing long-term fixes.

• Identifying scaling bottlenecks and resolving them, while being conscious of running costs.

• Collaborating with other engineering teams to ensure services you own are well-integrated with their services.

• Working with cross-functional stakeholders to help propose, design and implement solutions to meet business needs.

• Working independently and proactively, identifying opportunities to improve systems and processes over time.
  

What you’ll need to be successful

• Experience developing and maintaining production backend systems, ideally including Golang or similar languages.

• The ability to work independently and take ownership of services and systems.

• Strong attention to detail, particularly when working with production systems.

• A proactive mindset with a sense of urgency when addressing operational issues or incidents.

• Experience working with SQL databases (such as MySQL or MariaDB), including schema design for both OLTP and OLAP workloads, and writing and optimising complex queries.

• Familiarity with common Unix command line tools (such as sed, grep, and AWK) and shell scripting, Linux package managers such as RPM or dpkg, configuration management tools, such as Puppet.

• Experience using Amazon EC2, S3, RDS, and SQS, or equivalent services at other cloud providers.

• A good understanding of computer networking technologies, including TCP, IPv4, IPv6, DNS, HTTP, and TLS.

• Good written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts clearly and concisely.

Bonus points if you have

Bonus points for experience with TypeScript, Terraform, Android Emulator, scraper development, asynchronous or event-driven Perl, OpenSearch, OpenAPI, AI tools such as Cursor or Claude, and container technologies like Docker or Kubernetes.

At Netcraft we strongly believe in individual growth and development. Even if you can't tick every box above right now, please don't let it put you off applying.

The reward package:

• Competitive salary reviewed annually

• 20 days Annual Leave, and 15 days Personal Leave per annum

• 12% superannuation

• 4 x salary life cover

• Enhanced Parental Leave entitlements

• Comprehensive health, safety, and wellness service available 24/7 (family members are also welcome to access this)

• Two paid Personal Development days per year plus access to learning resources such as Udemy and Coursera to support your career

• Equity tracking scheme (eligibility criteria apply)

• Two paid Volunteering Days per year, so you can contribute to your wider community

• Meals, snacks, and drinks provided daily in the office

• Employee Referral Bonus scheme

• Hybrid and flexible working options

• Regular social events

• Inclusive culture and environment, where you’ll feel genuinely valued and supported.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

This is very important to us and through our ally network we actively support under-represented groups. We seek to maintain a working environment that is free from bias, harassment or discrimination and we encourage candidates from any background to apply, regardless of their gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, ability/disability, age, religion, or any other specific characteristics.

We’re happy to make reasonable adjustments to our hiring process to ensure that all candidates are able to
participate fully and comfortably.