Top Engineering Jobs in Melbourne

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.

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.

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.

Leads technical design and delivery of data engineering solutions migrating legacy data warehouses to Azure Databricks. Responsibilities include hands-on development, data modelling, ETL automation, DevOps, data quality, security, performance optimization, stakeholder collaboration, and mentoring onshore and offshore engineers. The role requires building scalable ingestion, curation, and transformation frameworks aligned with business requirements and architecture.

Provides basic testing, servicing, troubleshooting, and test infrastructure support for SEL products and processes under experienced staff direction. Communicates status to internal teams and customers, follows procedures, documents improvements, and develops proficiency in operations or R&D support disciplines. The role requires frequent customer and business travel, teamwork, technical documentation, and the ability to interpret electronic schematics and wiring diagrams.

Designs and maintains enterprise endpoint environments and desktop standard operating environments. Provides architectural guidance, escalation support, mentoring, customer consulting, and continuous improvement across endpoint management, Windows deployment, security, VDI, cloud, and hybrid infrastructure. The role requires strong stakeholder, communication, planning, budget, and vendor-management skills, along with eligibility for Australian Government Baseline clearance.

Designs and integrates systems across Hivemind Vision and Mission Autonomy stacks. Captures requirements, develops system architectures, creates SysML/UML/UPDM models, supports MBSE workflows, and connects system models with codebases. Collaborates with program leadership, design, development, integration, testing, product, and business development teams. Maintains systems engineering processes and reports project status, risks, and accomplishments to senior leadership.

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.

Work with a small engineering team to write, test, and ship production-ready code across front-end and back-end (React, Node.js). Collaborate with stakeholders, support QA, customer onboarding and deployments, learn from the Lead Engineer, and contribute to product features with autonomy in a hybrid startup environment.

Conduct advanced finite element analyses independently for complex client engineering problems. Collaborate with engineers, technicians, metallurgists, and clients to define project scopes; prepare technical reports and presentations; mentor engineers; and improve FEA processes, tools, methods, and best practices. The role requires a mechanical engineering degree, at least seven years of FEA software experience, metals and damage-mechanism knowledge, strong communication skills, and domestic and international travel as needed.

Lead the creation of REA’s residential machine learning capability, managing a distributed team across multiple product tribes. Set technical direction, engineering standards, delivery practices, and team ways of working. Provide guidance on ML, data science, data engineering, architecture, evaluation, governance, and operational excellence. Partner with product, design, and AI teams to deliver pragmatic AI/ML products using NLP, LLMs, semantic search, and related technologies.

Designs and implements Azure cloud infrastructure, governance, compliance automation, and DevOps solutions. Responsibilities include PowerShell DSC configuration, Azure Policy enforcement, Terraform modules, Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, observability, testing, technical design, documentation, and knowledge transfer. Provides technical leadership, establishes engineering standards and IaC patterns, collaborates with architects and delivery teams, and ensures cloud platforms meet security, resilience, reliability, and operational requirements.

Academic faculty member responsible for teaching, research, industry engagement, and academic leadership in communication and network engineering. The role covers telecommunications systems, network security, wireless and space communications, 6G, software-defined radios, RF systems, signal processing, embedded systems, and research testbeds. Responsibilities include course coordination, curriculum development, research leadership, external funding, higher-degree supervision, collaboration building, academic governance, and strategic leadership. Appointment may be at Academic Level C, D, or E based on achievements and experience.

Leads multiple software engineering squads building highly scalable crypto and fiat payment, wallet, and transaction-processing systems. Responsibilities include setting technical and strategic direction, mentoring engineers and tech leads, reviewing designs and code, supporting critical incidents, improving delivery practices, and ensuring reliability and operational excellence across large-scale production platforms.

Lead a squad of 3–5 engineers while remaining hands-on with full-stack development, architecture, coding, code reviews, reliability, and production delivery. Partner with Product and Design to build secure, scalable home lending platforms. Own the software lifecycle, promote CI/CD, DevOps, observability, automated testing, AI-assisted development, and continuous improvement. Influence engineering strategy, technical standards, platform sustainability, and capability uplift across the broader engineering organization.

Lead a team of 5–10 engineers in delivering a cloud-native, AI-first platform. Translate architectural direction into production-ready software, oversee code quality, testing, reliability, security, incident response, and operational readiness. Manage hiring, mentoring, performance, and team development while partnering with architects and a Technical Project Manager on sprint planning, estimation, capacity, and delivery. Remain hands-on through code reviews, debugging, tactical technical decisions, and engineering execution.

Provides administrative support to project teams, including project setup, document control, communications, deliverable tracking, procurement, logistics, inventory traceability, shipment coordination, and invoicing. Maintains accurate project records and ensures documentation, billing inputs, customer portal submissions, and stakeholder responses are properly managed. Requires strong organization, communication, attention to detail, and proficiency with Microsoft Office. Experience with Deltek Vantagepoint or ERP software is preferred.

Coordinates multidisciplinary digital engineering and BIM activities for large infrastructure projects. Responsibilities include model reviews, clash detection, issue resolution, CAD and digital model compliance, CDE workflows, information management, asset data validation, project reporting, quality assurance, and digital deliverable handover.