Staff Platform Engineer

Commonwealth Bank

. Design and build shared platform capabilities for consistent, reliable and enterprise-scale delivery of AI security controls .

Posted 10/28/2026full-timeSydney • AustraliaLeadWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and building scalable, resilient AI security platforms while integrating security controls and automation practices. Proven ability to lead technical direction, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to deliver robust solutions.

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Platform EngineeringCloud-Native EngineeringSecurity Engineering PrinciplesSoftware Development in Go, Python, Java, TypeScriptTechnical Leadership

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Hard Skills

AI Security ControlsAutomated TestingInfrastructure-as-CodeConfiguration-as-CodeContinuous Delivery PracticesResilient System DesignObservable Production SystemsIntegration PatternsApplication Programming InterfacesPrototyping and Proof-of-Concept

Soft Skills

Mentoring EngineersInfluencing Technical DecisionsCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

KubernetesContainersService MeshDistributed TracingPolicy-as-Code

Industry Keywords

AI WorkloadsCloud EngineeringSite Reliability EngineeringEmerging AI TechnologiesAgentic Architectures

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudJavaKubernetesPythonTypeScriptGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and build shared platform capabilities for consistent, reliable and enterprise-scale delivery of AI security controls
Translate security requirements and emerging technologies into robust, automated and reusable services
Enable engineering teams to protect AI workloads through clear paved-road patterns
Lead the architecture and engineering of platform capabilities protecting AI applications, services and workloads
Build reusable services, application programming interfaces, libraries, templates and automation for policy enforcement, configuration management and telemetry
Design integration patterns for securing AI traffic, model interactions, application programming interfaces and agentic architectures
Establish engineering standards and technical guardrails using automated testing, infrastructure-as-code, configuration-as-code and continuous delivery practices
Design for resilience, scalability and maintainability while assessing latency, throughput and capacity impacts within AI request paths
Lead prototypes and proofs of concept toward secure, production-ready services
Establish observability through metrics, logs, traces, dashboards and alerting
Mentor engineers and influence technical decisions across security, cloud, platform and application teams
Collaborate with security engineers, AI platform teams, cloud and infrastructure engineers, architects and application teams

Requirements

What you’ll need

Extensive experience in platform, software, cloud or site reliability engineering
Strong record of building shared technology platforms used by multiple engineering teams
Strong software engineering capability across services, application programming interfaces and integration patterns
Cloud-native engineering experience, including 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 activities
Demonstrated technical leadership, including establishing direction, influencing decisions and mentoring engineers across organisational 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

Benefits

Comp & perks

Accessible, inclusive and respectful workplace
Support or adjustments for accessibility needs
Career development opportunities
Support for Commonwealth Bank Group employees through Sidekick