Director of Engineering | Site Reliability Engineering

Macquarie Bank Limited; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing leave

Bonus leave

Parental leave

Transition leave

Volunteer leave

Gender affirmation leave

EAP access

Salary packaging

Learning & development

Hybrid work

Home office reimbursement

Job summary

Macquarie Bank Limited is seeking a Director of Engineering for Site Reliability Engineering. You will lead a world-class SRE team, directing Engineering Managers and leads to deliver highly reliable banking software.

The role emphasizes cloud-native practices, AI-enabled incident triage, and close collaboration with Macquarie's engineering community. You will shape architecture, drive measurable quality with SLOs and observability, and mentor engineers to raise capability across the

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience leading high performing, autonomous engineering teams
• 10+ years experience in software engineering and system design, hands-on with Java, Go or a comparable language, and with cloud deployments
• Track record of shipping platforms, services or developer tooling that other engineering teams build on
• Strong grasp of modern development practice, including CI/CD, automated testing and infrastructure as code
• Experience across reliability: SLOs, observability, resilience and capacity
• Experience building or operating AI or LLM-backed systems in production
• Excellent communication skills and ability to engage with stakeholders across all levels
• Bias to action, ability to move an organisation

Responsibilities

• Direct a team of Engineering Managers and engineering leads.
• Participate in design reviews and pull requests.
• Direct all aspects of SRE, Observability, SLOs, Release Engineering, Resiliency and Capacity Management.
• Help teams develop and drive adoption of best practices and tooling.
• Engage with the engineering community across the organisation.
• Mentor engineers and raise team capabilities.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud deployments

CI/CD

Observability

SRE principles

AI in production

Communication

Architectural direction

Mentoring

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Java

Go

Job description

Director of Engineering | Site Reliability Engineering

You will join our world class SRE team providing services for Macquarie Banking and Financial Services. Our function is a highly visible force multiplier with a growth mindset, where you can contribute to the delivery of a highly reliable banking solution. In this role you will leverage your extensive technical knowledge & people management skills to build, coach and inspire our team. As a digital bank we ship software for a living, and that software now includes AI and agentic systems carrying real customer and payment workloads. They meet the same reliability bar as everything else we run.

We are a global financial services group operating in 30 markets with 57 years of unbroken profitability. At Macquarie, you're empowered to shape a career that is fulfilling and creates value. You will bring your insights and expertise to the task at hand and feel supported as you make your own kind of impact for a better future.

What role will you play?

Reporting to the Head of Engineering, your key responsibilities will be to direct a team of Engineering Managers and engineering leads. Experience in a similar leadership role, you will have a growth mindset and an impressive software engineering track record across a range of technologies. We're 100% in cloud and we expect our leaders to participate in design reviews and pull requests.

Your work will cover all aspects of SRE, Observability, SLOs, Release Engineering, Resiliency and Capacity Management. This includes applying AI to SRE realm where it makes sense. Through partnering with engineering teams within Macquarie, you will help your teams develop and drive the adoption of our best practices and tooling across the organisation. The role will require close engagement and collaboration with all the engineering community.

Your teams will define what good looks like and build the machinery to measure it, covering evaluation harnesses, guardrails, tracing across agent steps and tool calls, and cost budgets. The second is using AI in the engineering work itself, with agents that triage incidents, diagnose from telemetry and open the pull request.

You will drive continuous improvement of development practice, guide architectural direction, and hold a high bar for quality. Mentor your engineers and keep raising what the team is capable of.

What you offer

• 5+ years experience leading and building high performing, autonomous engineering teams
• 10+ years experience in software engineering and system design, hands-on with Java, Go or a comparable language, and with cloud deployments
• Track record of shipping platforms, services or developer tooling that other engineering teams build on
• Strong grasp of modern development practice, including CI/CD, automated testing and infrastructure as code
• Experience across reliability: SLOs, observability, resilience and capacity
• Experience building or operating AI or LLM-backed systems in production, or a clear record of going deep in a new technical domain fast
• Excellent communication skills and ability to engage with stakeholders across all levels
• Bias to action, ability to move an organisation

What we offer

At Macquarie, you're empowered to shape a career that's rewarding in all the ways that matter most to you. Macquarie employees can access a wide range of benefits which, depending on employment type, include:

• 1 wellbeing leave day per year
• Up to 5 additional service bonus leave days per year
• Up to 20 weeks' paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of transition leave upon return to work, and 6 weeks' paid leave for non-primary caregivers
• 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching
• Up to 12 months' gender affirmation leave, including 6 weeks' paid leave
• Access to Employee Assistance Program and wellbeing benefits including skin and health checks, and flu vaccinations
• Access to a wide range of salary packaging options
• Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role
• Reimbursement for work from home equipment

About Banking and Financial Services

Banking and Financial Services is our technology-driven retail bank. You will be part of a team that supports clients to achieve their full potential - whether that’s buying a home, growing a business or investing to manage wealth.

Inclusion at Macquarie

We are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all, where different experiences, skills and perspectives are valued and respected. Macquarie provides access to opportunities for all individuals regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, marital status, gender identity or any other characteristic or circumstance.

We provide reasonable adjustments to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and employment. If you require an adjustment, please let us know during the application process.