Software Engineer

About Netcraft

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 and many large governments. We've blocked 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.

That passion shapes how we work, too. We’re proud of our talented team and the value each person brings, and we’ve built a workplace where people feel supported and inspired. From strong benefits and wellness programs to meaningful collaboration and team connection. 

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 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 Rewards Package:

• 20 days Annual Leave, and 15 days Personal Leave per annum
• 12% employer superannuation contribution
• Employer contributions to private health insurance
• Life Assurance at 4 x salary
• Generous enhanced Parental leave and pay entitlements
• Equity tracking scheme (eligibility criteria apply) - allowing you share in Netcraft's long term success
• (Sonder) Comprehensive health, safety, and wellness service available 24/7 for you and your family
• Two paid Learning & Development days per year plus access to learning resources such as Udemy and Coursera to support your career
• Two Volunteering Days per year, to allow you to contribute to your wider community or charity
• Meals, snacks, and drinks provided daily in the office
• Employee Referral Bonus scheme
• Hybrid and flexible working options
• Spot reward bonus scheme to reward truly outstanding contributions 

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 

This is deeply important to us. Through our ally network, we support under-represented groups and maintain a working environment free from bias, harassment, or discrimination. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. 

We’re also happy to make adjustments to the hiring process to ensure every candidate can participate fully. 

Please note: Netcraft does not accept unsolicited approaches from external recruiters.