Staff Software Engineer: Lead Secure, Scalable Full-Stack

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

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank in Sydney is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead hands-on development across complex investigations platforms. You will design and deliver secure, scalable full‑stack software, shaping architectural decisions and production readiness.

You will collaborate across squads, mentor engineers, and champion DevSecOps, CI/CD, and cloud-native practices to support enterprise-wide transformation and robust digital tooling.

Qualifications

• Design, build and maintain secure, scalable full‑stack software across multiple teams.
• Lead architecture decisions balancing security, reliability and performance.
• Mentor engineers and foster continuous improvement.
• Experience with cloud-native platforms, CI/CD and DevSecOps.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross‑team design and delivery of full‑stack software.
• Architect scalable backend services and APIs.
• Build secure cloud-native solutions with IaC.
• Establish API contracts and integration patterns.
• Champion automated testing and deployment pipelines.
• Implement observability with logs, metrics and traces.

Skills

Java

Golang

Python

Node.js/TypeScript

C#

React

Angular

Cloud AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

DevSecOps

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Prometheus

LLMs / Generative AI

Testing (TDD/BDD)

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation)

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Commonwealth Bank in Sydney is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead hands-on development across complex investigations platforms. You will design and deliver secure, scalable full‑stack software, shaping architectural decisions and production readiness.

You will collaborate across squads, mentor engineers, and champion DevSecOps, CI/CD, and cloud-native practices to support enterprise-wide transformation and robust digital tooling.