Staff Software Engineer: AWS Cloud & AI Platform Lead

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

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and operation of secure, cloud-native platforms, mentoring engineers and shaping architecture across AWS and Kubernetes-based systems.

You'll drive AI-enabled capabilities, implement secure-by-design practices and observability, and advance continuous delivery with IaC, GitOps and automated testing. Join a team delivering resilient content services.

Qualifications

• Experience as a software engineer with cloud-native platforms.
• Proven track record delivering secure, scalable cloud solutions.
• Experience applying AI within software or platform engineering a must.
• Ability to mentor engineers and influence architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, deployment and operation of secure, scalable cloud-native software solutions.
• Shape architecture and technical direction across AWS and Kubernetes-based platforms.
• Develop software and automation.
• Integrate AI-enabled capabilities into the platform and guide practical adoption.
• Embed automated testing, observability, monitoring and secure-by-design engineering practices.
• Improve delivery through infrastructure as code, CI/CD, GitOps and reusable patterns.
• Strengthen operational resilience, reliability, disaster recovery, performance and cost efficiency.
• Mentor engineers and influence architecture across squads.

Skills

Python

Java

.NET

AWS

Kubernetes

AI integration

Intelligent automation

ML integration

Retrieval-augmented generation

Technical leadership

Observability

Reliability engineering

Security

IAM

Encryption

Mentoring engineers

PostgreSQL

Oracle

MongoDB

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Amazon EKS

GitHub Actions

GitOps

Argo CD

Helm

CloudFormation

Job description

Commonwealth Bank is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and operation of secure, cloud-native platforms, mentoring engineers and shaping architecture across AWS and Kubernetes-based systems.

You'll drive AI-enabled capabilities, implement secure-by-design practices and observability, and advance continuous delivery with IaC, GitOps and automated testing. Join a team delivering resilient content services.