4 days ago

Staff Platform Engineer, Payments Technology

Commonwealth Bank

Sydney

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Staff Platform Engineer role in Payments Technology at one of Australia's largest technology environments. The role focuses on building internal developer platforms, driving reliability, observability, and modern engineering practices across critical payment systems. Requires experience with cloud-native technologies, AWS, Kubernetes, and strong technical leadership.

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Staff Platform Engineer, Payments Technology

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Salary

Not specified

Work Location

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, AU

Work Model

Remote

Employment Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Staff

Core Qualifications

Technical (Must-have)

.NETJavaNode.jsNext.jsREST APIsEvent-driven architecturesMicroservicesDistributed systemsAWSECSEKSKubernetesCloud-native architecturesInfrastructure as CodePlatform engineering practicesInternal Developer Platforms (IDPs)OpenTelemetryDistributed tracingMetrics, logs and tracesObserveOBStackMonitoring and alerting platformsService reliability engineering principlesResilience engineering practicesIncident management and operational excellenceGitHub ActionsTeamCityCI/CD PipelinesDevSecOpsSecure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC)Security controls and governanceCertificate managementIdentity and access managementEngineering automationSelf-service platformsAutomation and scriptingPlatform modernisationAI-assisted engineeringGitHub CopilotEngineering standards and governanceTechnical leadership and mentoring

Soft Skills

Technical leadershipMentoringCollaborationInfluenceCommunicationProblem solvingContinuous improvementCustomer focusOwnershipLearning

Key Responsibilities

•Design, build and evolve internal developer platforms that enable engineers to deliver software safely, consistently and efficiently.
•Create scalable self-service capabilities, reusable platform components and paved-road solutions that accelerate delivery and reduce cognitive load.
•Drive platform modernisation initiatives that improve developer productivity and simplify software delivery.
•Build automation capabilities that eliminate repetitive tasks and enable engineers to focus on solving customer problems.
•Partner closely with engineering squads to identify friction points and develop platform solutions that improve engineering effectiveness.
•Act as a force multiplier across the organisation by creating capabilities that raise the productivity and quality of multiple engineering teams.
•Champion reliability engineering practices across critical Payments systems.
•Drive initiatives that improve service availability, resilience, recoverability and operational maturity.
•Lead the adoption of reliability-focused engineering principles including failure analysis, resilience testing, incident learnings and operational readiness.
•Improve platform health through proactive identification and remediation of reliability risks and technical debt.
•Foster a culture where operational excellence is a core engineering responsibility rather than an operational afterthought.
•Partner with teams to continuously improve customer outcomes through stable, highly available and resilient systems.
•Shape and implement observability strategy across Payments technology platforms.
•Establish best practices around metrics, logs, traces and distributed systems monitoring.
•Drive adoption of OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing capabilities across modern cloud-native applications and services.
•Improve engineering visibility through meaningful telemetry and actionable operational insights.
•Enable faster incident detection, diagnosis and resolution through effective observability patterns and platform capabilities.
•Define engineering standards and practices for monitoring, alerting and operational intelligence at scale.
•Provide technical leadership across squads, crews and domains.
•Influence engineering strategy through collaboration, mentoring and technical guidance.
•Champion modern engineering principles, continuous improvement and engineering excellence.
•Help develop engineering standards, patterns and reference architectures.
•Mentor engineers and platform practitioners, helping grow capability across the Payments organisation.
•Actively promote a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, learning, collaboration and customer outcomes.
•Drive communities of practice and contribute to uplifting technical capability across teams.
•Design and build cloud-native platform capabilities on AWS.
•Develop Infrastructure as Code and platform automation solutions.
•Improve CI/CD capabilities and software delivery pipelines.
•Embed security, governance and compliance requirements throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
•Drive DevSecOps adoption and support Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) practices.
•Partner with engineering teams to ensure platform capabilities are secure, scalable and maintainable.

Staff Platform EngineerPayments TechnologyFinancial ServicesEngineeringInformation TechnologyAWSKubernetesDevSecOpsObservabilityPlatform Engineering

Core Qualifications

Technical (Must-have)

Soft Skills

Technical leadershipMentoringCollaborationInfluenceCommunicationProblem solvingContinuous improvementCustomer focusOwnershipLearning

Key Responsibilities

•Design, build and evolve internal developer platforms that enable engineers to deliver software safely, consistently and efficiently.

•Create scalable self-service capabilities, reusable platform components and paved-road solutions that accelerate delivery and reduce cognitive load.

•Drive platform modernisation initiatives that improve developer productivity and simplify software delivery.

•Build automation capabilities that eliminate repetitive tasks and enable engineers to focus on solving customer problems.

•Partner closely with engineering squads to identify friction points and develop platform solutions that improve engineering effectiveness.

•Act as a force multiplier across the organisation by creating capabilities that raise the productivity and quality of multiple engineering teams.

•Champion reliability engineering practices across critical Payments systems.

•Drive initiatives that improve service availability, resilience, recoverability and operational maturity.

•Lead the adoption of reliability-focused engineering principles including failure analysis, resilience testing, incident learnings and operational readiness.

•Improve platform health through proactive identification and remediation of reliability risks and technical debt.

•Foster a culture where operational excellence is a core engineering responsibility rather than an operational afterthought.

•Partner with teams to continuously improve customer outcomes through stable, highly available and resilient systems.

•Shape and implement observability strategy across Payments technology platforms.

•Establish best practices around metrics, logs, traces and distributed systems monitoring.

•Drive adoption of OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing capabilities across modern cloud-native applications and services.

•Improve engineering visibility through meaningful telemetry and actionable operational insights.

•Enable faster incident detection, diagnosis and resolution through effective observability patterns and platform capabilities.

•Define engineering standards and practices for monitoring, alerting and operational intelligence at scale.

•Provide technical leadership across squads, crews and domains.

•Influence engineering strategy through collaboration, mentoring and technical guidance.

•Champion modern engineering principles, continuous improvement and engineering excellence.

•Help develop engineering standards, patterns and reference architectures.

•Mentor engineers and platform practitioners, helping grow capability across the Payments organisation.

•Actively promote a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, learning, collaboration and customer outcomes.

•Drive communities of practice and contribute to uplifting technical capability across teams.

•Design and build cloud-native platform capabilities on AWS.

•Develop Infrastructure as Code and platform automation solutions.

•Improve CI/CD capabilities and software delivery pipelines.

•Embed security, governance and compliance requirements throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

•Drive DevSecOps adoption and support Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) practices.

•Partner with engineering teams to ensure platform capabilities are secure, scalable and maintainable.