What is the role 

Full time, Monday–Friday, with hybrid options available.

This role is open for candidates based in Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle, and Brisbane.

The Solutions Specialist, Cybersecurity is responsible for the continuity of New Era’s Cyber Security services and solutions. It provides escalation support, solution design and operational oversight, and senior technical expertise for project delivery.

The role works closely with the Solutions and Service Delivery teams to meet SLAs, maintain service standards, and act as the regional Cyber Security champion, driving awareness, guidance, and compliance.

Other key responsibilities include but may not be limited to following:

• Act as the Cyber Security champion, driving awareness, monitoring, and training.
• Design, review, and support secure solutions in collaboration with Solutions Group, Pre Sales and engineering teams.
• Ensure compliance with cybersecurity frameworks (ISO 27001, Essential Eight, CIS, NIST) and support audits and certifications.
• Lead security incident response, threat hunting, vulnerability assessments, and root cause analysis to meet SLAs.
• Serve as senior technical escalation for design, operations, projects, and APAC/client support, including after-hours as required.
• Provide mentorship to engineers and contribute to pre-sales, client security strategy, and risk assessment.
• Develop and maintain technical designs, procedures, documentation, and drive automation and continuous improvement.
• Maintain strong technical currency, manage logging and incident tasks, and accurately track daily activities.

Who we are looking for 

Successful candidate must possess:

• 5+ years’ enterprise cyber security experience
• Must have at least one major cloud security certification (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Cyber Security certification desirable e.g. CISM, CRISC
• Must have experience with Australian government frameworks like Essential 8 and other cyber security frameworks (SMB1001, NIST etc.)
• Experience with leading vendors (Palo Alto, Fortinet, Microsoft)
• Exposure to solutions architecture and pre‑sales activities is desirable
• Experience working in a Cyber Security team with strong networking and hands‑on infrastructure support, including installs and remote troubleshooting
• Experience with Cisco IOS/FortiOS firewalls, routing, and VPNs, plus Microsoft & Linux OS, Office 365, Azure AD, and Active Directory
• Experience supporting VMware/Hyper‑V environments, backup solutions (e.g. Veeam), and Bash or PowerShell scripting
• Strong communication skills, interpersonal skills, team‑oriented, client‑focused, and able to work under pressure
• Ability to solve problems and think both logically and laterally
• Strong willingness to learn and pass on knowledge

What we offer

• A friendly team environment with a strong technical support network
• Broad range of options for training and developing your IT skills
• Opportunity to work with the IT industry's latest technologies
• Internal career growth for high performers and IT super-stars
• Cost price on products from our suppliers
• Lunches and snacks provided (Brisbane and Newcastle only)
• Comprehensive Employer Assistance Program
• Gym membership – Newcastle office only
• Referral bonus

Mission

Speechify is the easiest way to listen to the world’s information. Articles on the web, documents in the cloud, books on your phone. We absorb it all and let you listen to it at your desk, on the go, at your own speed, and with tools that make learning easier, deeper, and faster.

What streaming services have done for audio entertainment, we’re doing for audio information. And whatever we’re doing seems to be working. We’re #1 in our category, and experiencing exponential growth.

Overview

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Core Experiences Team. This team builds and maintains the foundational services and SDKs that power Speechify’s product experience across platforms. It's a critical role for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of product and infrastructure, thinks strategically, and is passionate about designing clear, reliable APIs and simple systems that directly enhance the user experience.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with Speechify’s Product Teams to scope projects, find ways to reduce scope to get faster feedback from customers, navigate the integration/UX tradeoffs relevant to different product teams, and deliver solutions via our cross-platform SDK
• Optimize existing functionality to ship things like faster loading and more intelligent parsing by designing more efficient abstractions and improving our algorithms
• Ship cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and jobs using Kotlin

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Systems thinking. You know that optimizing a system requires end-to-end design, and you believe simplicity is valuable.
• Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and options and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time
• Focus. We’re a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down
• Collaboration. You know how to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs
• Preferred Tech Stack:
  • Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience is OK but role is Kotlin Multiplatform) 
  • Prior experience with GCP is a plus

What We Offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
• An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
• A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
• An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
• Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
• Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.
• Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
• Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 

Refer them! 

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.  

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Overview

We're looking to hire for our Data side of our AI team at Speechify. This role is responsible for all aspects of data collection to support our model training operations. We are able to build high-quality datasets at petabyte-scale and low cost through a tight integration of infrastructure, engineering, and research work. We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join us.

What You’ll Do

• Be scrappy to find new sources of audio data and bring it into our ingestion pipeline
• Operate and extend the cloud infrastructure for our ingestion pipeline, currently running on GCP and managed with Terraform.
• Collaborate closely with our Scientists to shift the cost/throughput/quality frontier, delivering richer data at bigger scale and lower cost to power our next-generation models.
• Collaborate with others on the AI Team and Speechify Leadership to craft the AI Team’s dataset roadmap to power Speechify’s next-generation consumer and enterprise products.

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of industry experience in software development.
• Proficiency with bash/Python scripting in Linux environments
• Proficiency in Docker and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and professional experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (we use GCP)
• Experience with web crawlers, large-scale data processing workflows is a plus
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

What we offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
• An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
• A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
• An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
• Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
• Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.
• Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
• Work in one of the fastest-growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 

Refer them! 

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.  

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Overview

The responsibilities of our Platform team include building and maintaining all backend services, including, but not limited to, payments, analytics, subscriptions, new products, text to speech, and external APIs.

This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, is passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users.

We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount. 

Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week. 

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain robust APIs including public TTS API, internal APIs like Payment, Subscription, Auth and Consumption Tracking, ensuring they meet business and scalability requirements
• Oversee the full backend API landscape, enhancing and optimizing for performance and maintainability
• Collaborate on B2B solutions, focusing on customization and integration needs for enterprise clients
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to align backend architecture with overall product strategy and user experience

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Proven experience in backend development: TS/Node (required)
• Direct experience with GCP and knowledge of AWS, Azure, or other cloud providers
• Efficiency in ideation and implementation, prioritizing tasks based on urgency and impact
• Preferred: Experience with Docker and containerized deployments
• Preferred: Proficiency in deploying high availability applications on Kubernetes

What We Offer

• A dynamic environment where your contributions shape the company and its products
• A team that values innovation, intuition, and drive
• Autonomy, fostering focus and creativity
• The opportunity to have a significant impact in a revolutionary industry
• Competitive compensation, a welcoming atmosphere, and a commitment to an exceptional asynchronous work culture
• The privilege of working on a product that changes lives, particularly for those with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, and more
• An active role at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio – a rapidly evolving tech domain

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 

Refer them! 

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

An overview of this role

As a Staff Engineer on GitLab's Software Composition Analysis team, you'll drive hands-on implementation of security features that help customers understand and manage risks in their software supply chain. Your focus will be on enhancing GitLab's SCA capabilities in dependency scanning and container scanning. You'll work directly on architecture and technical implementation and help the team push forward on three core goals: Gather (introducing data points that help customers understand the urgency of issues, like reachability analysis and supply chain poisoning detection), Integrate (providing other teams with innovative collection techniques for better workflows), and Optimize (solving data correlation at massive scale). You'll contribute hands-on code, help solve novel technical challenges, and establish patterns that improve how the distributed team works together across multiple time zones.

Examples of some future features that you may help build: 
- Dependency scanning for unmanaged C/C++ 
- Dependency Scanning for Yocto environments 
- Vulnerability detection using CPE-based matching against package metadata

What you’ll do

• Implement complex features in dependency scanning and container scanning, shipping improvements that increase scan coverage, improve accuracy, and drive adoption of GitLab's SCA capabilities
• Solve novel technical problems in SCA, establishing reusable patterns that reduce delivery time and improve engineering effectiveness across the team
• Guide architectural and implementation decisions in collaboration with engineering managers, product managers, and peer engineers to improve scalability, reliability, and delivery outcomes across the team's SCA architecture
• Contribute code, design reviews, and technical mentorship that raise quality standards, improve maintainability, and strengthen performance across the codebase
• Collaborate across GitLab's security domain to align SCA work with related efforts in vulnerability management and adjacent product areas, accelerating delivery of shared roadmap goals and improving coordination across related security efforts
• Identify and resolve technical debt, prioritizing changes that improve team velocity, code health, and long-term maintainability across the team's core SCA services
• Translate product needs and customer feedback into technical solutions in partnership with product, UX, and security stakeholders, delivering features that address high-impact customer risks and advance shared roadmap goals

What you’ll bring

• Hands-on experience in Software Composition Analysis and the ability to contribute to complex security features in dependency scanning and container scanning
• Deep hands-on expertise in building and evolving dependency scanning and container scanning analyzers
• Demonstrated ability to design solutions that balance complexity, performance, and maintainability
• Expertise with backend technologies, particularly Go and/or Ruby on Rails, with ability to pick up new technologies quickly
• Familiarity with cloud providers like GCP, CloudFlare, or AWS
• Ability to evaluate technical tradeoffs in SCA and security tooling, with proven success delivering maintainable solutions that help customers manage software supply chain risk
• Ability to work effectively in distributed, async-first teams across multiple time zones
• Experience explaining complex technical and security concepts to engineers and stakeholders

About the team

The Software Composition Analysis team is part of GitLab's Sec Engineering group, and we focus on building capabilities that help customers identify and manage risks in their software supply chain. We work across areas including dependency scanning, container scanning, and license scanning, and we work closely with product, UX, security, and adjacent engineering teams to close important feature gaps in GitLab's platform. Our team members are distributed across regions including Europe and North America, so we rely on clear documentation, asynchronous communication, and thoughtful coordination across time zones. This opportunity is centered on helping us deliver complex security features while balancing hands-on technical progress with strong team execution.

The Role:

It’s an exciting time for Ping Identity in New Zealand. Off the back of recent growth you will be the first Sales Engineer on the ground further accelerating adoption of Ping Identity solutions in the country. With the support of an exceptional  Sales Engineering team in Australia and Singapore, you will shape the face of this role.

This role offers the chance to showcase your technical and consultative skills, engaging with stakeholders of various roles and levels to understand and meet their technical requirements with cutting-edge solutions. Your expertise in Identity and Access Management (IAM) technologies will be key in delivering impactful solutions that align with customer business goals.

You will also be instrumental in strengthening partner relationships across ANZ. You will work alongside a highly effective partner team on engaging and interactive customer oriented meetings, demonstrations, and proofs of concept that articulate the business and technical value customers will receive from a Ping Identity solution. You will be an active member of a team that empowers personal, team, and partner success.  This role will be a key contributor to our overall sales and business development strategy as we look to continue maturing our partner network that will ensure sustained growth across the region as well as seeking to build out our partner capability in a number of other developing markets.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver pre-sales activities including solution demonstrations, presentations, technical guidance, proof of concepts, and RfX responses.
• Act as the go-to technical expert on Ping Identity solutions for customers, partners, and internal teams.
• Establish enduring relationships with customers and become their trusted advisor
• Collaborate with the sales team to deliver revenue. Emphasis during key sales cycle phases of Qualification, Discovery, and Technical Proof Phase 
• Coordinate, throughout sales cycle, pre-sales efforts with a post-sales service delivery team
• Leading customer-facing meetings, both through videoconferencing and in-person to, deliver presentations, whiteboarding sessions, and demonstrations of Ping Identity solutions and their value remotely, in-person, and at industry events
• Provide insightful feedback on product enhancements and customer needs to product owners.
• Mentoring, both formally and informally, junior team members
• Develop subject matter expert-level knowledge of at least one of Ping Identity's solutions and serve as an expert resource to other Sales Engineers within the organization
• Foster close relationships with delivery partners to support the technical sales relationship and build a mutual beneficial plan of success for delivering Ping Identity solutions.
• Support partner teams to understand and deliver enablement to drive and business goals
• Provide pre-sales technical guidance to partners, i.e., product demonstrations, proof of concept for proposed solutions, and/or technical workshops
• Able to travel 15% to 40% as needed

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent field, or 5+ years' experience with enterprise-level software systems in a customer-facing role, such as pre-sales, consulting, support, or training
• Deep knowledge of standard identity protocols: SAML, WS-Fed, OAuth, OIDC, and SCIM as well as experience with REST interfaces
• Deep knowledge of technologies that underly identity solutions: LDAP (including Active Directory), SSL/TLS, PKI, RADIUS, SQL, DNS, JDBC
• Experience with one or more modern programming languages and web technologies: JavaScript, Python, Node.js, HTTP, HTML, CSS, JSON, Java.
• Expertise in developing and delivering effective technical presentations, workshops, customized demonstrations, and proof of concepts
• Strong communication and customer service skills.
• Adept at linking technical capabilities to customer needs.
• Ability to work with a high level of self-direction and/or collaboratively with team and customers
• Knowledge of a subset of the following IAM concepts: Authentication / Authorization / Federation / Single Sign-On / User Lifecycle Management / Provisioning / Governance / Workflow / 
• Eagerness to learn; expertise in specific business areas or industry verticals is a bonus.
• Familiarity with infrastructure, networking technologies, and cloud service providers.

Ideal Candidate Skills:

• Installation and/or configuration of one or more IAM technologies from Ping, Okta, Auth0, Sailpoint, CA, Oracle or similar
• Experience with several types of web applications servers and operating systems: Windows, Mac, RedHat, Ubuntu, Apache, Nginx, Tomcat
• Experience with DevOps processes and platforms such as GitHub, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Helm, as well as deployment in major cloud environments (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
• Successful delivery of a SaaS-based IAM solution
• Experience in Ping multi-tenant SaaS solutions: PingOne SSO, PingID, PingOne MFA, PingOne Verify, PingOne Protect, PingOne Authorize, and DaVinci

About Us

Pushpay is a high-growth Kiwi founded SaaS business that is spread between offices in the United States and Auckland, NZ. We help organizations and communities come together and stay connected through our suite of mobile apps, management software and giving technology. Our teams of Software Engineers, SRE’s, QA's, UX and Product Managers work closely together to deliver value to our customers as the leading provider of mobile apps and giving technology to churches, schools, and nonprofits.

Benefits

We have a passion for making all employees feel supported. In addition to having a genuine interest in helping you do your best work and drive your career, we offer:

• • Training: $3,000 annual training/conference allowance for your personal development
  • Family Oriented: As our Pushpay family grows, we understand yours may too. Our paid parental leave policy offers primary & secondary caregiver leave, and we also have no leave override for those returning to work after parental leave, meaning you'll be paid at your full rate for annual holidays. 
  • Hybrid Work Model: We aim to offer a healthy work/life balance with flexible hours and the option to work from home 2 days a week
  • Sick Leave: You'll automatically start accruing this upon starting - no 6 month wait period. 
  • Volunteer Time Off: 16 hours paid VTO per year, so you can give back to causes most meaningful to you
  • Advanced gear
  • Unlimited snacks, drinks and coffee!
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Free annual flu shots
  • Fun social events throughout the year, and Friday in-office happy hour

Role and Responsibilities

Delivering business value by designing and developing high-quality software and systems in a highly collaborative environment. Raising the quality, and velocity of other team members.

Reports to

Engineering Manager or Senior Engineering Manager

Main activities

• Review and debug code, systems and infrastructure
• Perform validation and verification testing
• Understand and exhibit the company's core values (Values.pdf)
• Communicate progress, blockers and risks
• Develop tools and automation by producing clean, efficient code

• Maintain systems via a mix of manual and automated techniques
• Participate in on-call support of the Pushpay products, if on the on-call roster
• Review system generated events and alerts and industry sources for operational issues and security concerns

• Produce value to the business by regularly shipping robust, high quality features into the production environment
• Identify problems and risks in your own work, and that of others. Suggest improvements to design and approach
• Be aware of, and contribute to refining, the engineering "lore and custom" (aka. culture, policies, and procedures)
• Identify, prioritize and execute tasks in the software development life cycle
• Actively improve operability of systems and operational awareness of teams
• Take the initiative to identify and/or fix issues before being assigned them
• Recruit new Engineers (sales pitch, technical screens)
• Contribute to SRE Operability and Architecture Reviews with other engineering teams
• Be highly aware of the profound security and compliance ramifications of the nature of our business (specifically our PCI compliance requirements)
• Develop high-quality system design and architecture
• Break down larger pieces of work into small, well-scoped pieces for other team members
• Take end-to-end responsibility on features of increasing complexity
• Spend time making sure junior or new engineers unfamiliar with the tech or processes we have understand what they are doing and why they are doing it
• Work with Software Engineers, Quality Assistance, Product and other parts of the business to review requirements and proposed solutions and provide input into these processes (which may include ideation, algorithms, processes and feature design) which may constitute intellectual property that belongs to Pushpay
• Develop software and tooling (code, algorithms, designs, processes and practices) that will be incorporated into Pushpay products (both internal and external) and associated infrastructure which may constitute intellectual property that belongs to Pushpay

Key skills

• Passionate developer of scalable, secure software and systems.
• Fastidious architect dedicated to building and maintaining reliable infrastructure.
• Proactive researcher of industry trends, consistently integrating new technologies and ideas.
• Commercially astute professional with high proficiency in:
• Cloud Platforms: AWS, GCP, Azure
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Cloudformation
• Command Line Environments: Shell, PowerShell, Bash
• Database Management: Relational and document-based systems
• Web Technologies: HTTP, SSL/TLS, REST APIs, and GraphQL
• Programming Languages: Python, Go, Rust, JavaScript, and .NET
• Version Control: DVCS (preferably Git)
• CI/CD Tooling: GitHub Actions and Jenkins
• Project Management: Bug tracking systems such as Jira
• Capable architect of complex, end-to-end software solutions.
• Excellent communicator, proficient in both written and verbal technical documentation.
• Self-managed professional with strong time management and expectation-setting skills.
• Collaborative teammate, generous with knowledge-sharing and mentorship.
• Strategic thinker able to articulate work in both technical and business-impact terms.

Internal contacts

Site Reliability Engineering Team Members, Tech Lead, Engineering Team Members, Delivery Manager, Engineering Managers, Product Managers, QA, On-Call team, IT, Product Marketing, Data Team, Customer Care Team.

External contacts

Conferences, User Groups, Service Providers and Partners, Integration Partners.

Typical experience

• 5+ years of relevant SRE, systems or software engineering experience; “relevant” being: Developing Internet-scale multi-user web/mobile/cloud type software products
• Applicable tertiary qualifications

Please note: To be considered for this vacancy you must either currently reside in New Zealand, or if currently off-shore, be a New Zealand citizen, permanent resident or resident with valid travel conditions.