Principal Software Engineer - Engineering Platforms

Commonwealth Bank; Sydney; On-site; AUD 220,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank in Australia seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead Engineering Platforms, shaping software platforms and tooling to help engineers build and deliver at scale. You will drive complex engineering across CI/CD, automation, security and software delivery, advancing AI-powered engineering and platform capabilities.

You’ll provide technical leadership, design scalable capabilities, contribute to CI/CD and tooling, and mentor engineers while collaborating across teams to deliver

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on software engineering experience with strong programming capability and experience designing and building complex software systems.
• Experience building engineering platforms, developer tooling or capabilities consumed by engineering teams at scale.
• Strong knowledge of modern CI/CD and software delivery practices across GitHub, pipeline automation, source control, testing, security tooling or artefact management.
• Experience integrating engineering tooling with cloud environments and secure software delivery practices in complex tech environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across software‑based engineering platforms and developer tooling, bringing solutions together around better outcomes for engineers.
• Design, build and evolve scalable capabilities that improve how engineers develop, integrate and deliver software.
• Contribute deeply to CI/CD and engineering tooling across areas such as source control, automation, testing and artefact management.
• Build and evolve automated delivery capabilities that make it easier for engineers to move safely and efficiently from code to production.
• Work closely with engineers across different areas of CommBank, using co‑building and inner‑source approaches to develop solutions at enterprise scale.
• Bring strong engineering judgement to architecture, automation, controls, standards, reliability and security.
• Solve complex technical problems and balance engineering trade‑offs to deliver sustainable solutions.
• Provide technical direction and help lift engineering capability through collaboration, mentoring and pragmatic technical leadership.

Skills

Hands-on software engineering

CI/CD expertise

Platform development

Mentoring

Tools

GitHub

Automation tooling

Source control

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Commonwealth Bank in Australia seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead Engineering Platforms, shaping software platforms and tooling to help engineers build and deliver at scale. You will drive complex engineering across CI/CD, automation, security and software delivery, advancing AI-powered engineering and platform capabilities.

You’ll provide technical leadership, design scalable capabilities, contribute to CI/CD and tooling, and mentor engineers while collaborating across teams to deliver