Senior Staff Engineer, AI-Driven Platform & Security

Commonwealth Bank; Australia; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank is seeking a senior technical leader to steer the Secure Desktop and Identity Services domain within EUX. You will balance hands-on engineering with architecture, mentoring, and strategy to deliver reliable, secure end-user computing solutions.

This role offers hybrid working arrangements across Australia, with opportunities to shape platform direction, drive DevSecOps practices, and mentor engineers in a fast-evolving AI-enabled engineering environment.

Qualifications

• Senior engineer with leadership experience guiding squads and setting technical direction.
• Proven ability to design secure, scalable, cost-effective end-user computing platforms.
• Strong background in DevSecOps, CI/CD and automation across Windows/macOS environments.

Responsibilities

• Shape roadmap and strategy for your squad's products and services, with technical leadership and mentorship.
• Demonstrate engineering excellence across code, design, testing, and documentation to raise craft standards.
• Design and implement platform services and tools to deliver measurable business value and support architecture transitions.
• Build CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling with strong incident management alignment.
• Identify emerging technologies, including AI-enabled tooling, to improve Standard Operating Environment and tooling.
• Collaborate across squads to define engineering standards and patterns.

Skills

Platform engineering

Backend development

CI/CD tooling

DevSecOps

Microservices

Identity management

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

PowerShell

Bash

Python

TypeScript

AWS

Job description

Commonwealth Bank is seeking a senior technical leader to steer the Secure Desktop and Identity Services domain within EUX. You will balance hands-on engineering with architecture, mentoring, and strategy to deliver reliable, secure end-user computing solutions.

This role offers hybrid working arrangements across Australia, with opportunities to shape platform direction, drive DevSecOps practices, and mentor engineers in a fast-evolving AI-enabled engineering environment.