Principal Software Engineer
Commonwealth Bank of Australia18 days ago
Sydney, Australia or Melbourne, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Provide hands-on technical leadership, set engineering direction, and mentor senior engineers.
- Design, build, and evolve platforms, tools, reusable capabilities, self-service features, standardized pipelines, and reusable templates.
- Establish engineering standards, patterns, guardrails, and golden paths to improve quality and consistency.
- Partner with delivery squads to uplift engineering practices and support sustainable adoption.
- Champion automation and AI-powered approaches across the software delivery lifecycle.
- Work with architecture, security, risk, data, and engineering teams to deliver enterprise-aligned solutions.
- Improve observability, reliability, performance, and cost optimization as part of everyday engineering.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience designing, coding, and operating practical technology solutions.
- Deep experience in one or more programming languages and the ability to work across different technology stacks.
- Deep understanding of modern software delivery, including DevSecOps, quality engineering, observability, reliability, and release practices.
- Experience designing, building, and operating cloud solutions, preferably on AWS, including infrastructure as code and continuous delivery pipelines.
- Experience with containers, platform runtime patterns, secure engineering, identity and access management, and automated controls.
- Capability using AI tools, patterns, or workflows to improve engineering quality, productivity, and outcomes.
- Ability to explain complex technical strategy clearly and bring diverse teams together around practical outcomes.
- Collaborative, curious, and continuous-improvement mindset with an interest in uplifting engineering capability at scale.
Benefits
- Accessible, inclusive, and respectful workplace.
- Support and workplace adjustments are available for applicants who require them.
- Applications are welcomed from people of all backgrounds, with a stated commitment to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
About Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Australia’s leading provider of financial services including retail, premium, business and institutional banking, funds management, superannuation, insurance, investment and sharebroking products and services. We are a business with more than 800,000 shareholders and over 52,000 employees. We offer a full range of financial services to help all Australians build and manage their finances. Connect with us, we'd like to hear from you: facebook.com/commonwealthbank twitter.com/commbank youtube.com/commbank youtube.com/commbankbusiness instagram.com/commbank Our Community Guidelines can be found at: https://www.commbank.com.au/support/social-networks.html For information on our Privacy Policy visit https://www.commbank.com.au/support/privacy