Principal Engineer, AI-Powered Engineering Platforms

CommBank; Sydney; On-site; AUD 230,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

CommBank is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to shape software platforms and engineering tooling that empower engineers to build and deliver at scale. You will lead complex initiatives across CI/CD, automation, security, and software delivery, contributing to a modern engineering platform strategy with enterprise-scale impact.

You will work within an AI-powered engineering direction, focusing on building platforms and guardrails that reduce friction, improve standards, and enable teams to

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on software engineering experience building platforms or developer tooling.
• Experience delivering large-scale engineering platforms used by multiple teams.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD and software delivery practices, including GitHub and automation.
• Experience integrating tooling with cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Understanding of secure software delivery practices and compliance in complex tech environments.
• Experience with AI-powered engineering practices and scalable delivery.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across engineering platforms and developer tooling.
• Design and evolve scalable capabilities to improve how engineers develop and deliver software.
• Contribute to CI/CD, source control, automation, testing and artefact management.
• Build automated delivery capabilities to move code to production safely and efficiently.
• Collaborate across CommBank using inner-source approaches for enterprise-scale solutions.
• Provide guidance on architecture, reliability, and security.

Skills

Software engineering

Platform development

CI/CD

Developer tooling

Tools

GitHub

Pipeline automation

Source control

Testing

Security tooling

Artefact management

Job description

CommBank is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to shape software platforms and engineering tooling that empower engineers to build and deliver at scale. You will lead complex initiatives across CI/CD, automation, security, and software delivery, contributing to a modern engineering platform strategy with enterprise-scale impact.

You will work within an AI-powered engineering direction, focusing on building platforms and guardrails that reduce friction, improve standards, and enable teams to