Principal Software Engineer

CommBank; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

CommBank is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead hands-on engineering and platform enablement within the Business Banking technology environment in Australia. The role focuses on shaping standards, uplifting developer experience, and guiding teams to adopt modern delivery practices.

You will provide technical leadership across Everyday Business Banking, building practical solutions, strengthening platforms, and delivering secure, reliable outcomes at pace.

Qualifications

• Proven hands-on software engineering across platforms and services.
• Deep understanding of modern software delivery including DevSecOps and CI/CD.
• Experience designing, building and operating cloud solutions, preferably AWS.
• Experience with containers, platform runtimes, IAM and automated controls.
• Ability to explain technical strategy clearly and align diverse teams to outcomes.
• Collaborative, curious, and focused on uplifting engineering capability at scale.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentor senior engineers.
• Design, build and evolve platforms, tools, and reusable capabilities.
• Establish engineering standards, patterns, and guardrails for quality.
• Partner with squads to uplift engineering practices and adoption.
• Champion automation and AI-powered approaches across delivery lifecycle.
• Improve developer experience with self-service pipelines and templates.
• Collaborate with architecture, security, risk and data teams to align with standards.
• Strengthen observability, reliability, performance and cost optimisation.

Skills

Strong software engineering

Language-agnostic mindset

DevSecOps experience

Observability focus

Cloud engineering

AI/ML tooling familiarity

Engineering leadership

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

• Lead hands‑on engineering and platform enablement across a large, complex Business Banking technology environment.
• Shape engineering standards, uplift developer experience and help delivery teams adopt modern ways of working.
• Build with cloud, automation, DevSecOps and AI-powered engineering practices as CommBank advances its technology estate.

• Lead hands‑on engineering and platform enablement across a large, complex Business Banking technology environment.
• Shape engineering standards, uplift developer experience and help delivery teams adopt modern ways of working.
• Build with cloud, automation, DevSecOps and AI-powered engineering practices as CommBank advances its technology estate.

Do Work That Matters

Business Banking Technology is on a mission to become Australia's leading digital business bank. We partner closely with our business colleagues to solve real customer problems through technical innovation and empowered teams.

As a Principal Software Engineer in the Engineering and Platforms Centre of Excellence, you'll provide hands‑on technical leadership across Everyday Business Banking. You'll build practical engineering solutions, strengthen platforms and practices, and help teams deliver secure, reliable and high-quality outcomes at pace.

See yourself in our team

Be part of a team that's passionate about helping Australian businesses succeed. In CommBank's Business Banking team, you'll partner with customers to support their ambitions, backed by market-leading technology, a collaborative culture and opportunities to grow your career.

You'll join a team that connects delivery squads with central technology teams, helping close local engineering gaps and turn enterprise platforms, tools and strategies into practical outcomes. The team supports more than 75 delivery squads and 450 engineers, with a broad focus spanning platform enablement, cloud, DevSecOps, Observability, automation and AI-powered engineering.

In this role, you will:

• Provide hands‑on technical leadership, helping set engineering direction and mentoring senior engineers.
• Design, build and evolve platforms, tools and reusable capabilities that make engineering simpler and more effective.
• Establish engineering standards, patterns, guardrails and golden paths that improve quality and consistency.
• Partner directly with squads to uplift their engineering practices and support meaningful, sustainable adoption.
• Champion automation and AI-powered approaches across the software delivery lifecycle.
• Improve developer experience through self‑service capabilities, standardised pipelines and reusable templates.
• Work with architecture, security, risk, data and engineering teams to deliver solutions aligned with enterprise standards.
• Strengthen observability, reliability, performance and cost optimisation as part of everyday engineering.

We're interested in hearing from people who:

You're a versatile, hands‑on engineer who can move comfortably between software, platforms and infrastructure. You enjoy solving complex problems, building practical solutions and helping other engineers do their best work. We use a broad range of tools, languages and frameworks, so we don't expect you to know everything. Experience across several of the following areas will set you up for success.

• Strong software engineering fundamentals, with experience designing, coding and operating practical technology solutions.
• A language-agnostic mindset, supported by deep experience in one or more programming languages and the adaptability to work across different technology stacks.
• Deep understanding of modern software delivery, including DevSecOps, quality engineering, observability, reliability and release practices.
• Experience designing, building and operating cloud solutions, preferably on AWS, including infrastructure as code and continuous delivery pipelines.
• Experience with containers, platform runtime patterns, secure engineering, identity and access management, and automated controls.
• Capability using AI tools, patterns or workflows to improve engineering quality, productivity and outcomes.
• The ability to explain complex technical strategy clearly and bring diverse teams together around practical outcomes.
• A collaborative, curious and continuous improvement mindset, with a genuine interest in uplifting engineering capability at scale.

Working with us:

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