Staff Software Engineer (AWS and AI)
- Lead the design and operation of secure, resilient cloud-native platforms.
- Shape an evolving enterprise platform while mentoring engineers and improving engineering practices.
- Work with AWS, Kubernetes, Python and AI technologies as CommBank advances its technology strategy.
Do Work That Matters
As a Staff Software Engineer in the Document Retention and Archiving Crew, you’ll provide hands-on technical leadership across cloud-native platforms and enterprise content services. Following the migration of OpenText products from on-premises infrastructure to AWS-hosted, containerised services, the team is focused on operating, strengthening and progressively enhancing the platform, including integrating AI capabilities.
You will help shape the future of our cloud-first platforms and services, ensuring they meet business needs while aligning with modern engineering principles, secure-by-design practices, and operational excellence standards.
Bring your ambition and we’ll help you grow, belong and shape what’s next through meaningful work, modern technology and collaboration with a community of engineering experts.
See yourself in our team
This role sits within the Document Retention & Archiving Crew in Operations Technology (COO Transformation Tech), where we design and deliver cutting-edge technology solutions that enable secure, scalable, and resilient content platforms for the enterprise.
You will:
- Lead the design, development, deployment and operation of secure, scalable cloud-native software solutions.
- Shape architecture and technical direction across AWS and Kubernetes-based platforms.
- Develop software and automation
- Integrate AI-enabled capabilities into the platform and guide their practical, responsible adoption.
- Embed comprehensive automated testing, observability, monitoring and secure-by-design engineering practices.
- Improve delivery through infrastructure as code, continuous integration and deployment, GitOps and reusable engineering patterns.
- Strengthen operational resilience, reliability, disaster recovery, performance and cost efficiency.
- Mentor engineers, share knowledge and influence technical outcomes across squads and the wider crew.
We’re interested in hearing from people who:
You’re an experienced software engineer and technical leader who enjoys working across software, platforms and operations. You can turn complex requirements into practical engineering solutions, influence architectural decisions and support others to grow. Experience applying AI within software or platform engineering is strongly preferred, although candidates with relevant exposure and a strong ability to build capability will also be considered.
You’ll bring:
- Strong software engineering experience in Python, Java or .NET, including sound design, testing and secure coding practices.
- Deep hands-on experience designing and operating solutions on AWS and Kubernetes, ideally including Amazon EKS.
- Practical experience with AI-enabled solutions, intelligent automation, machine learning integration patterns, retrieval-augmented generation or agentic AI.
- Experience with continuous integration and deployment, GitHub Actions, GitOps, Argo CD, Helm and infrastructure as code such as CloudFormation.
- Strong knowledge of observability, reliability engineering, security, identity and access management, encryption and operational support.
- The ability to provide technical leadership, mentor engineers and influence architecture and engineering standards across teams.
- Experience with relational or NoSQL databases, such as PostgreSQL, Oracle or MongoDB, will be well regarded.
Working with us:
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Skills Required
- Strong software engineering experience in Python, Java, or .NET
- Experience designing and operating solutions on AWS and Kubernetes
- Experience with AI-enabled solutions, intelligent automation, machine learning integration patterns, retrieval-augmented generation, or agentic AI
- Experience with continuous integration and deployment
- Experience with GitHub Actions, GitOps, Argo CD, Helm, and infrastructure as code such as CloudFormation
- Strong knowledge of observability and reliability engineering
- Strong knowledge of security, identity and access management, and encryption
- Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and influencing architecture and engineering standards
- Experience with relational or NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MongoDB
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.
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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.
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