Principal Engineer: AI-Driven Platform Lead (Hybrid)

Talenza; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible on-site work schedule

Job summary

Talenza is seeking a hands-on Principal Engineer to lead the technical direction of our platforms delivering secure, reliable communications. This permanent role involves 2-3 days on-site in South Brisbane/Gold Coast, Brisbane area, guiding teams from architecture to production while staying close to the code.

You will own architecture across high-availability platforms, drive event-driven and API-first design, and mentor engineers across multiple teams.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Java, Spring Boot and TypeScript experience.
• Delivery of large-scale distributed platforms.
• Knowledge of event-driven and API-first architecture.
• Cloud and platform engineering across containers, CI/CD, IaC.
• Experience designing AI agents and automated workflows.
• Observability, reliability, incident management, disaster recovery.
• Technical leadership across multiple teams while reviewing code and architecture.
• Experience in regulated industries is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Set architecture and engineering standards across multiple teams.
• Design reusable APIs, event patterns, platform services and automation.
• Improve scalability, observability, resilience and traceability.
• Reduce reliance on legacy platforms and strengthen security, privacy and consent.
• Lead key technical decisions and support major incident resolution.
• Mentor senior engineers and lift engineering capability across the group.
• Identify where AI and automation can improve productivity and customer delivery.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

TypeScript

Distributed systems

Event-driven architecture

Cloud

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Automation

AI agents

Observability

Incident management

Disaster recovery

Technical leadership

Regulated industry

Tools

Containers

Kubernetes

Job description

Talenza is seeking a hands-on Principal Engineer to lead the technical direction of our platforms delivering secure, reliable communications. This permanent role involves 2-3 days on-site in South Brisbane/Gold Coast, Brisbane area, guiding teams from architecture to production while staying close to the code.

You will own architecture across high-availability platforms, drive event-driven and API-first design, and mentor engineers across multiple teams.