Senior Platform Engineer: AI & Cloud Leader

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

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank in Melbourne is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead hands-on engineering and platform enablement across a large Business Banking technology environment. You’ll shape engineering standards, uplift developer experience and promote modern practices as CommBank advances its technology estate.

In this role, you’ll provide hands-on technical leadership, design and evolve platforms, and partner with delivery squads to adopt best practices, cloud solutions, security, and

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Language-agnostic mindset with ability to work across languages.
• Deep understanding of modern software delivery, including DevSecOps, observability and release practices.
• Experience designing, building and operating cloud solutions, preferably on AWS.
• Experience with containers, platform runtime patterns, secure engineering and automated controls.
• Capability using AI tools or patterns to improve engineering quality and outcomes.
• Ability to explain complex technical strategy and bring diverse teams together.
• Collaborative, curious and continuous improvement mindset, uplifting engineering capability at scale.

Responsibilities

• 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 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.

Skills

Hands-on engineering

Cloud platforms

DevSecOps

AI-powered engineering

Observability

Platform enablement

Mentoring engineers

Automation

Job description

Commonwealth Bank in Melbourne is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead hands-on engineering and platform enablement across a large Business Banking technology environment. You’ll shape engineering standards, uplift developer experience and promote modern practices as CommBank advances its technology estate.

In this role, you’ll provide hands-on technical leadership, design and evolve platforms, and partner with delivery squads to adopt best practices, cloud solutions, security, and