Staff Platform Engineer
Commonwealth Bank of Australia1 day ago
Sydney, Australia or Melbourne, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and engineering of platform capabilities that protect AI applications, services, and workloads.
- Build reusable services, APIs, libraries, templates, and automation for policy enforcement, configuration management, and telemetry.
- Design integration patterns for securing AI traffic, model interactions, APIs, and agentic architectures.
- Establish automated testing, infrastructure-as-code, configuration-as-code, continuous delivery, and technical guardrails.
- Design for resilience, scalability, maintainability, latency, throughput, and capacity in AI request paths.
- Lead prototypes and proofs of concept through to secure, production-ready services.
- Establish observability using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting.
- Mentor engineers and influence technical decisions across security, cloud, platform, and application teams.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in platform, software, cloud, or site reliability engineering, including building shared platforms used by multiple engineering teams.
- Strong software engineering capability across services, APIs, and integration patterns.
- Cloud-native engineering experience with containers, orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, and automated delivery.
- Experience designing resilient, scalable, observable, and highly automated production systems.
- Understanding of security engineering principles and experience integrating security controls into platforms or application request paths.
- Ability to evaluate emerging AI technologies through experimentation, prototyping, and proof-of-concept work.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, including setting direction, influencing decisions, and mentoring engineers across organizational boundaries.
- Experience with AI or machine learning platforms, AI gateways, model endpoints, agentic architectures, Kubernetes, proxies, service mesh, distributed tracing, or policy-as-code.
- Software development experience using Go, Python, Java, TypeScript, or a comparable language.
- Specific product or vendor experience is not required; technologies are evaluated for engineering merit, security outcomes, interoperability, and enterprise suitability.
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/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
- Advertising end date: 10/11/2026.
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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.