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 the ML organization developing Zendesk Custom Agents, setting strategy, managing and mentoring engineers and scientists, and delivering production generative AI systems. Oversees agent reasoning, tool use, knowledge grounding, evaluation, reliability, safety, latency, and cost optimization. Partners across Product, Engineering, Design, Security, and Science to establish quality standards, monitor production performance, and connect ML improvements to measurable customer outcomes.

Designs, develops, deploys, and supports secure AI, machine learning, generative AI, copilots, agents, and intelligent automation solutions. Responsibilities include building RAG systems, APIs, integrations, MLOps and DevOps practices, monitoring, governance, and responsible AI controls. The role translates business needs into production-ready AI products and partners with data engineering, cybersecurity, privacy, risk, and governance teams.

Lead Digital Engineering and BIM capability across transport and rail infrastructure projects in Victoria and Tasmania. Coordinate multidisciplinary models, federated information, design workflows, and collaboration platforms while ensuring compliance with Australian standards. Guide project teams, clients, and leaders on digital delivery, information management, automation, and innovation. Coach teams, promote consistent practices, and contribute to ANZ digital delivery leadership.

Develops fixed-transport optical networking solutions for telecommunications service-provider customers. Leads technical sales opportunities, solution architecture, tender and RFP responses, compliance, network design, demonstrations, trials, and technical workshops. Applies DWDM, optical link engineering, converged packet-optical technologies, and coherent transmission expertise while collaborating with sales, product, engineering, delivery, and support teams. The role is Melbourne-based and involves domestic and international travel.

Leads the API and frontend engineering teams building Keet, a peer-to-peer messaging and video-calling app. Owns technical design, API architecture, performance, reliability, engineering standards, team delivery, and leadership development. Partners with product managers to scope and prioritize features, challenge assumptions, and translate product vision into buildable work. Requires strong product judgment, JavaScript and React expertise, and familiarity with distributed or local-first systems.

Leads Jetstar’s enterprise data platform engineering and modelling capability. Oversees Snowflake and AWS environments, data pipelines, transformation, modelling, reliability, resilience, performance, security, cost, incident management, and disaster recovery. Leads multidisciplinary engineering teams, sets technical standards, develops specialist talent, and guides DevOps and MLOps practices. Partners with vendors and senior stakeholders while translating complex technical, risk, and commercial considerations into platform decisions.

Lead and develop engineering teams while providing hands-on technical direction, delivery oversight, and platform engineering leadership. Improve infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, reliability, developer tooling, and engineering workflows. Partner with squad leads and cross-functional leaders to prioritize work, remove blockers, manage technical debt, and improve delivery predictability. Drive practical AI adoption across development and operations, measuring its effect on quality, speed, and team effectiveness.

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.

Build and own automated testing frameworks, CI/CD infrastructure, load and stress testing, and chaos engineering practices for a brokerage platform. Write primarily Go, integrate AI and LLM tooling into quality workflows, investigate application and Kubernetes failures, improve developer tooling, and mentor engineers on reliability and test coverage.

Leads global AI-first MarTech engineering strategy, architecture, governance, compliance, and delivery. Oversees scalable digital platforms, public-facing properties, GenAI applications, R&D, proof-of-concepts, and automated compliance capabilities. Builds and mentors a global team of engineering and AI professionals, manages vendors, and partners with marketing, business, cloud, security, privacy, infrastructure, and legal stakeholders to deliver secure, high-performance digital experiences.

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.

Designs, implements, and refines threat detection and response use cases aligned with MITRE ATT&CK and the Cyber Kill Chain. Collaborates with threat intelligence, incident response, forensics, and security operations teams; analyzes attack patterns and security events; participates in red-team and penetration-testing exercises; tracks emerging threats; and reports detection effectiveness metrics to leadership. The role also investigates anomalies, correlates artifacts across datasets, and supports proactive defense strategies.

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 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.

Provides technical customer experience and supportability leadership for Microsoft Intune. Partners with engineering and production support teams on architecture feedback, troubleshooting, service availability, incident resolution, metrics, process improvements, and problem management. Analyzes customer and community trends, documents technical guidance, and enables support teams across Windows, iOS, Android, networking, and enterprise systems. Requires three or more years supporting high-availability applications, systems, networks, and servers.

Leads software engineering teams building search, browse, merchandising, recommendation, personalization, and consumer engagement capabilities. Owns roadmap execution, delivery planning, operational excellence, engineering quality, team metrics, talent development, and stakeholder collaboration. Drives experimentation, AI-assisted engineering, scalable services, and continuous improvement across digital consumer experiences.

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.

Leads quality engineering strategy across PUMA’s direct-to-consumer technology landscape. Responsibilities include managing automation teams, designing scalable test frameworks, driving regression and API testing, integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, defining quality metrics, and partnering with engineering, product, DevOps, SRE, and architecture teams. The role also advances shift-left practices, performance testing, observability, AI-assisted testing, and continuous improvement across web, mobile, commerce, integrations, and platform services.

Leads the Site Reliability Engineering organization for PUMA’s DTC platform. Defines SRE strategy, reliability standards, incident management, observability, resilience, cloud governance, infrastructure automation, and operational readiness. Oversees Google Cloud Platform operations, deployment safety, disaster recovery, FinOps, and peak-event preparedness. Builds and develops SRE teams, coaches engineering leaders, manages hiring and workforce planning, and promotes sustainable on-call practices across high-volume digital platforms.

Leads and develops software engineering teams building high-volume commerce services for basket, checkout, payments, promotions, taxation, order processing, and fulfillment. Owns roadmap execution, delivery planning, operational excellence, engineering quality, team metrics, hiring, mentoring, and talent development. Partners with product and technology stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, highly available omnichannel commerce capabilities while driving AI-assisted engineering practices and continuous improvement.

Lead the design, development, integration, and support of SailPoint IdentityIQ solutions across a large enterprise. Build identity and application integrations, automate onboarding, guide identity engineers, analyze requirements, and ensure traceability across design, testing, and delivery. The role focuses on identity governance, access management, security uplift, cloud and directory integrations, and reliable production outcomes while partnering with stakeholders and engineering teams.