Senior Staff Software Engineer — AI Platform & Security

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

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank is seeking a senior engineer to lead a squad within the Secure Desktop and Identity Services domain in EUX. You will set technical direction, balance hands-on coding with architectural design, mentor engineers, and drive secure, cost-effective end-user computing solutions.

The role offers hybrid working flexibility and the opportunity to influence enterprise-grade platforms across Windows/macOS, .NET/Java/TypeScript backends, and modern IaC tooling.

Qualifications

• Lead strategic and technical direction for your squad's products and services.
• Demonstrate exemplary code, design, testing, and documentation quality.
• Design and implement platform services and support tools to deliver business value.
• Build CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling aligned to SLAs and incidents.
• Identify emerging technologies including AI-enabled tooling for the SOE.
• Collaborate with squads to define engineering standards and patterns.

Responsibilities

• Shape the roadmap and strategy for your squad's products and services.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the team.
• Design and implement platform services supporting target architectures.
• Build automation and CI/CD pipelines for safe, observable changes.
• Identify and enable AI-enabled tooling in the engineering stack.
• Define and promote engineering standards across squads.

Skills

Platform engineering

Backend development

CI/CD automation

Microservices & APIs

IAM platforms

Cloud & IaC

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

PowerShell

Bash

Python

TypeScript

.NET / Java

Job description

Commonwealth Bank is seeking a senior engineer to lead a squad within the Secure Desktop and Identity Services domain in EUX. You will set technical direction, balance hands-on coding with architectural design, mentor engineers, and drive secure, cost-effective end-user computing solutions.

The role offers hybrid working flexibility and the opportunity to influence enterprise-grade platforms across Windows/macOS, .NET/Java/TypeScript backends, and modern IaC tooling.