Principal Platform Engineer — AI-Driven CI/CD

Commonwealth Bank Of Australia; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank Of Australia is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to shape engineering platforms and tooling used by engineers across the organisation. You will lead complex initiatives in CI/CD, automation, security and software delivery at enterprise scale.

You’ll apply deep software engineering expertise to develop platforms, tooling and capabilities that reduce delivery friction and strengthen engineering standards in a modern, AI-powered environment.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on software engineering experience with platform focus.
• Experience building engineering platforms and developer tooling at scale.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD and modern delivery practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across software platforms and tooling.
• Design and evolve scalable capabilities for engineers to develop and deliver software.
• Advance CI/CD, source control, testing and artefact management.
• Build automated delivery to move from code to production safely and efficiently.
• Collaborate across CommBank to develop enterprise-scale solutions.
• Apply engineering judgement to architecture, controls, reliability and security.
• Mentor and uplift engineering capability through collaboration and leadership.
• Engage with teams to co-build solutions at scale.

Skills

Hands-on coding

Platform design

CI/CD

Developer tooling

Cloud integration

Security tooling

AI-powered engineering

Cross-team collaboration

Mentoring

Architectural judgement

Tools

GitHub

Pipeline automation

Source control

Testing tooling

Artefact management

Security tooling

Job description

Commonwealth Bank Of Australia is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to shape engineering platforms and tooling used by engineers across the organisation. You will lead complex initiatives in CI/CD, automation, security and software delivery at enterprise scale.

You’ll apply deep software engineering expertise to develop platforms, tooling and capabilities that reduce delivery friction and strengthen engineering standards in a modern, AI-powered environment.