Top Engineering Jobs in Melbourne

Lead end-to-end engineering talent acquisition across APJ, translating business priorities into hiring strategies and personally delivering complex senior engineering searches. Build and manage an in-house recruiting team, oversee RPO and external partners, develop specialized technical talent pipelines, improve assessment and candidate experience, and use recruiting analytics to guide decisions. The role requires navigating confidential, security-sensitive hiring environments and partnering closely with engineering leaders across autonomy, robotics, simulation, machine learning, and infrastructure.

Build and improve developer-first platform tools, engineering workflows, delivery systems, and unified tooling for thousands of engineers. Solve complex cross-organizational technical challenges, scale AI-native development practices, influence senior stakeholders, and mentor engineers through collaboration and technical leadership. The role is distributed across Australia and New Zealand with quarterly in-person sessions.

Leads two database reliability engineering teams across Australia and New Zealand. Owns database infrastructure modernization, AI DBA platform delivery, migrations to Amazon RDS, and transition from SQL Server to Aurora Postgres. Coaches experienced engineers, manages large-scale technical transformations, improves incident response and database operations, and partners with product and technical teams to enable greater database ownership.

Lead the architecture, development, and evolution of enterprise-scale React Native mobile applications. Provide technical leadership and mentorship, establish engineering and testing standards, improve security and performance, oversee CI/CD and releases, integrate backend APIs, troubleshoot production issues, and partner with stakeholders on strategic digital transformation initiatives.

Delivers quality engineering and testing solutions in traditional and agile environments. Works with increasing independence on small- to medium-complexity assignments, applying initiative while seeking senior guidance when needed.

Leads regional solutions engineering and pricing for contract logistics across APAC. Designs efficient warehouse, distribution, and transportation systems; supports customer RFQs; develops commercially viable proposals; drives automation, robotics, and technology adoption; establishes engineering standards; and trains and coaches solution engineering teams. Partners with stakeholders, consultants, and technology suppliers to improve processes, reduce costs, enhance service, and deliver supply chain innovation.

Engineering Intern supporting industrial refrigeration projects through technical research, calculations, engineering documentation, AutoCAD updates, site inspections, project administration, procurement, safety documentation, testing, and commissioning. The role provides hands-on exposure to engineering design, project delivery, manufacturing, construction, and sustainability while working under experienced engineers and project teams.

Leads software engineering across Jetstar’s booking, payment, identity, and travel journeys. Oversees engineering managers, cyber engineering, cloud security, critical incident readiness, resilience, delivery quality, contracted engineering partners, and modern AI-assisted practices. Requires accountability across multiple domains, secure-by-design expertise, vulnerability management, and recovery planning for critical systems.

Leads automation and protection system projects for electric power systems, including design, configuration, validation, installation, commissioning, customer training, and operational support. Manages scope, schedules, budgets, quality, safety, proposals, and customer relationships. Mentors professional staff and may supervise personnel. Requires strong expertise in power system automation, protection, control, integration, communications, and related industrial protocols.

Leads hands-on engineering teams responsible for Jetstar’s customer-facing digital platforms, including reservations, web and mobile apps, payments, identity, membership, cybersecurity, and incident readiness. Owns technical direction, architecture, roadmaps, reliability, security, platform costs, vendor performance, and engineering capability. The role requires leading large-scale migrations and operating production systems while coordinating permanent, contracted, and offshore engineers.

Leads and develops a Melbourne-based primary engineering team while delivering HV and EHV transmission, distribution, and substation designs across Australia and New Zealand. Responsibilities include technical design, equipment selection, cable and earthing solutions, stakeholder engagement, resource planning, work winning, mentoring, and supporting complex energy infrastructure projects through their lifecycle.

Leads technical delivery for major multidisciplinary building engineering projects in Melbourne. Responsibilities include setting mechanical design direction, conducting high-level reviews, managing client relationships, ensuring commercial and technical performance, supporting business growth, mentoring engineers, and delivering projects across health, defence, aviation, transport, sports infrastructure, and other sectors.

Develop and maintain high-fidelity detections across identity, endpoint, SIEM, and operating-system environments. Conduct hypothesis-driven threat hunts across large-scale telemetry, translate threat intelligence and investigations into detection rules, tune detection efficacy, investigate ambiguous attacker activity, and escalate likely intrusions with clear incident reports. The role also involves building hunting queries and dashboards, contributing to security content, and validating AI-assisted analysis and detection workflows.

Provide Level 3 technical support for complex CRIMS issues, leading critical incident response, troubleshooting logs and databases, root-cause analysis, defect reproduction, workaround design, and engineering escalations. Create evidence packs, Jira defects, runbooks, monitoring requirements, and operational controls while supporting hotfixes and new-product readiness. The role requires strong SQL, application support experience, financial-services knowledge, communication skills, and periodic off-hours support.

Lead engineering strategy and delivery across five squads building payment reporting, data feeds, and customer reporting platforms. Develop high-performing teams across Australia and India, modernize legacy and vendor platforms to cloud-native event-driven architectures, and champion architecture, security, reliability, and operational resilience. Partner with product, architecture, risk, cybersecurity, and payments teams while advancing distributed systems, data engineering, real-time processing, and AI-assisted engineering practices.

Leads engineering excellence and continuous compliance across a cybersecurity technology landscape. Defines security engineering standards, baselines, maturity measures, lifecycle practices, reusable patterns, and resilience guidance. Translates assurance findings and compliance obligations into prioritized remediation, drives DevSecOps adoption, and influences engineering, operations, automation, resilience, and delivery teams to implement measurable improvements.

Provides Level 3 technical support for complex CRIMS issues, leading Sev1 incidents, advanced troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, defect reproduction, workaround design, and engineering escalations. Analyzes logs, database state, configuration, integrations, and performance; creates Jira defects, supports hotfixes, develops runbooks, defines monitoring controls, and improves operational readiness. The role requires financial-services technology experience, strong SQL and scripting skills, and periodic off-hours support.

Lead Arkeus’s software engineering function, building teams, standards, technical practices, and career pathways. Provide architectural and technical leadership across development, testing, integration, deployment, and real-time systems. Partner with systems, hardware, AI/ML, computer vision, advanced development, and product teams to deliver reliable software for complex sensing and autonomous platforms. Guide software from concepts through field deployment while balancing performance, security, reliability, technical quality, and delivery needs.

Leads a multidisciplinary engineering squad building and operating self-service customer experiences across NetBank and the CommBank App. The role combines hands-on software development, technical direction, architecture, production code, CI/CD, security, resilience, observability, and operational readiness with people leadership, coaching, performance management, and collaboration with Product and Design.

Lead and develop a data engineering team responsible for Group Security’s strategic data platforms and products. Define engineering strategy, guide data architecture and platform design, oversee secure and scalable pipelines, and lead migration from legacy systems to AWS and Snowflake-based cloud environments. Drive engineering excellence through automation, testing, observability, CI/CD, and operational discipline while partnering with product, architecture, security, and engineering stakeholders.

Leads engineering across a product portfolio by managing Engineering Managers, partnering with Product and Design, guiding delivery, strengthening reliability, and addressing architecture, security, technical debt, dependencies, and incident response. The role develops engineering leaders, supports healthy team culture, aligns priorities, and ensures software systems remain sustainable and customer-focused.

Teach and coordinate Mechanical Engineering units, develop project-based curricula, assess student learning, support accreditation, maintain professional currency, and build industry partnerships. The role focuses on learner-centered education, student success, scholarship of teaching and learning, curriculum improvement, and contemporary practice in areas including advanced manufacturing, automation, robotics, industrial systems, and production engineering.

Develop and maintain cross-platform consumer mobile applications using React Native, TypeScript, and JavaScript. Build reusable components, integrate REST and GraphQL APIs, implement state management, optimize performance, troubleshoot crashes, support testing and CI/CD releases, and apply accessibility and usability principles. Collaborate with product, design, QA, and engineering teams in Agile delivery environments while contributing to code reviews, experiments, and engineering standards.

Supports Defence communications and ICT services by delivering infrastructure changes, deployments, remediation, troubleshooting, releases, and service requests. The role maintains operational and configuration data, prepares technical documentation, communicates with stakeholders, and contributes to continuous improvement. It requires network engineering or infrastructure support experience, strong routing and switching skills, and an active NV1 security clearance.

Advise customers on Azure cloud, database, analytics, and AI solutions. Design secure and scalable architectures, lead discovery workshops, demonstrations, proof-of-concepts, and deployment planning, and guide database modernization and migrations. Partner with sales, customer success, and technology partners to influence technical decisions, remove deployment blockers, and drive adoption. Apply expertise in Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Azure databases, PostgreSQL, advanced analytics, and emerging Agentic AI technologies.