Organization:
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is the largest and number one bank in Australia, serving over 17 million customers. We maintain a high-trust brand reputation built on financial strength, innovation, and community impact. As of July 2025, CBA holds market cap of approximately USD 195.7 billion, ranking us among the top 100 most valuable companies globally. Our leadership in digital banking, customer safety, and responsible AI reflects our commitment to building a brighter future for all. Our values are reflected in our high-trust brand reputation. CBA is consistently ranked among Australia’s most valuable and trusted brands.
Job Title: Principal Software Engineer
Location: Bangalore - Manyata Tech Park
Business & Team: CTO
Impact & Contribution:
As a Principal Engineer who can move comfortably between software, data, platforms and infrastructure. You enjoy solving complex engineering problems, building practical solutions and helping other engineers improve their engineering practices.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Provide hands-on technical leadership, helping set engineering direction and mentoring engineers.
- Design, build and evolve platforms, services, APIs and reusable engineering capabilities.
- Build scalable integration and data solutions connecting applications, infrastructure, cloud, configuration, asset, security, risk and operational data.
- Establish engineering standards and patterns covering architecture, code quality, APIs, testing, observability, security, resilience and deployment.
- Improve data quality, automation and governance through well-engineered data pipelines, APIs and integration patterns.
- Build and operate cloud solutions, preferably on AWS, using Infrastructure as Code and automated delivery practices.
- Partner with architecture, security, risk, data and engineering teams to deliver solutions aligned with enterprise standards.
- Help shape the evolution of enterprise technology platforms, including CMDB, IT Asset Management (ITAM) and ServiceNow capabilities.
- This is 100% hands-on engineering and coding, with direct accountability for design, development, testing, and delivery.
Essential Skills:
- 14–20 years of strong software engineering experience, including senior technical leadership.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals with deep experience in one or more modern programming languages such as Java, Golang, Python or TypeScript/JavaScript.
- Experience designing data-intensive, API-led, microservices, serverless or event-driven systems.
- Strong experience designing and building APIs, integrations, automation and data pipelines.
- Experience designing, building and operating cloud solutions, preferably on AWS.
- Strong understanding of DevSecOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, observability and reliability engineering.
- Experience working with large-scale enterprise data and integration architectures.
- Ability to work across application, infrastructure, cloud, data, security and enterprise architecture domains.
Education/Qualifications: A bachelor and/or masters degree in engineering OR any equivalent degree.
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Skills Required
- 14-20 years of strong software engineering experience, including senior technical leadership
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and deep experience with one or more modern programming languages, such as Java, Golang, Python, TypeScript, or JavaScript
- Experience designing data-intensive, API-led, microservices, serverless, or event-driven systems
- Strong experience designing and building APIs, integrations, automation, and data pipelines
- Experience designing, building, and operating cloud solutions, preferably on AWS
- Strong understanding of DevSecOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, observability, and reliability engineering
- Experience working with large-scale enterprise data and integration architectures
- Ability to work across application, infrastructure, cloud, data, security, and enterprise architecture domains
- Bachelor's and/or master's degree in engineering or an equivalent degree
Commonwealth Bank Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Commonwealth Bank and has not been reviewed or approved by Commonwealth Bank.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — The bank offers additional Life Leave, the option to purchase up to four extra weeks, pet leave, and paid volunteering leave alongside flexible-working options. Public materials indicate these leave features compare well within Australian banking.
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Parental & Family Support — Permanent employees can access up to 18 weeks of paid parental leave, and superannuation is paid for up to 34 weeks of unpaid parental leave. These provisions extend support for new parents beyond standard settings.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Access includes CBHS Health Fund, Fitness Passport, a 24/7 wellbeing platform with telehealth, an Employee Assistance Program, and employer‑paid income protection for up to two years, alongside staff banking perks and share plans. This combination provides day‑to‑day value across health, protection, and financial perks.
Commonwealth Bank Insights
What We Do
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.
