Senior Python Backend Engineer – Vulnerability Platform

Macquarie Bank Limited; Sydney; On-site; AUD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing leave day

Parental leave

Volunteer leave

Learning & development

Hybrid working

Equipment stipend

Job summary

Macquarie Bank Limited is building a cutting-edge vulnerability management platform. You will design, develop and maintain a greenfield system with a modern tech stack, delivering robust and scalable software across multi-cloud environments.

You will lead backend design, drive automation and testing, and collaborate to improve remediation workflows while applying security-conscious development practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Strong Python expertise across backend services and APIs.
• Demonstrated ability to design, build and maintain scalable backend systems.
• Solid background in microservices architecture with Kubernetes and CI/CD best practices.
• Good understanding of cloud-native environments and integrating security or operational tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain a greenfield platform for vulnerability management.
• Drive delivery of robust, scalable software solutions across multi-cloud environments.
• Collaborate to identify, analyse and mitigate vulnerabilities and streamline remediation workflows.

Skills

Python backend

Backend systems design

Microservices architecture

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Cloud-native environments

Testing & automation

Data platforms

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Apache Iceberg

Airflow

dbt

Job description

Macquarie Bank Limited is building a cutting-edge vulnerability management platform. You will design, develop and maintain a greenfield system with a modern tech stack, delivering robust and scalable software across multi-cloud environments.

You will lead backend design, drive automation and testing, and collaborate to improve remediation workflows while applying security-conscious development practices.