Staff Platform Engineer
Commonwealth Bank of Australia2 days ago
Sydney, Australia or Melbourne, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve reusable AI/ML platform capabilities for training, evaluation, deployment, serving, and monitoring.
- Embed versioning, traceability, automated checks, controlled promotion, and rollback into AI/ML delivery workflows.
- Develop self-service infrastructure, deployment patterns, and operational tooling to reduce manual work.
- Use incidents, performance trends, and recurring support issues to address root causes and prevent repeat failures.
- Improve workload scheduling, scaling, resource utilization, capacity management, performance, resilience, and cost efficiency.
- Apply FinOps practices including cost allocation, consumption visibility, rightsizing, and workload optimization.
- Embed security, access controls, and operational governance into platform design and engineering workflows.
- Provide staff-level technical leadership, shape roadmaps, lead complex design decisions, influence teams, and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering skills with Python or another relevant programming language, API development, automated testing, and maintainable tooling.
- Deep understanding of cloud-native engineering, containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and automated delivery practices.
- Practical experience taking AI/ML workloads into production, including model pipelines, artifact and version management, deployment, serving, and monitoring.
- Understanding of AI/ML operational requirements including reproducibility, data and model dependencies, compute requirements, and production performance.
- Experience applying reliability engineering practices such as service-level objectives, observability, capacity planning, incident response, and recovery.
- Demonstrated automation-first approach to eliminating recurring manual work and improving developer and operator experience.
- Experience applying FinOps principles and evaluating cost, performance, and resilience trade-offs for AI/ML training and inference.
- Experience embedding security, access controls, and operational governance into engineering workflows.
- Strong technical judgment and ability to influence across teams, mentor engineers, and deliver measurable engineering improvements.
Benefits
- Inclusive and respectful workplace with accessibility support and workplace adjustments available.
- Applications are welcomed from people of all backgrounds, with a stated commitment to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
- Commonwealth Bank Group employees, including Bankwest and x15ventures employees, must apply through Sidekick.
- Advertising end date: 17/11/2026.
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About Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is an ASX-listed bank headquartered in Sydney that provides retail, business, and institutional banking, payments, and wealth services across Australia. Its offerings include transaction and savings accounts, home and business lending, cards, merchant services, digital banking, superannuation, and investment platforms such as CommSec. Founded in 1911, the bank serves millions of customers through branches, contact centres, and online channels.