Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Melbourne

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 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.

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.

Leads engineering execution for Machines4U, including product development, platform reliability, delivery cadence, technical roadmaps, modernization, integrations, security, and compliance. Manages a distributed engineering team, partners with product and group engineering stakeholders, guides architecture and technical trade-offs, and communicates engineering risks, capacity, and priorities to senior leadership.

Lead a distributed data engineering team to design, build, and maintain core data models and real-time data flows on an AWS/Snowflake platform. Balance strategic architecture and hands-on delivery, manage risks and dependencies, establish SLOs and DataOps practices, and coach senior engineers to improve platform quality and performance.

Leads an operations engineering team supporting mission-critical public safety communication systems for government and enterprise clients. Oversees system architecture, technical escalations, operational health, asset lifecycles, ITIL processes, documentation, service performance, security coordination, and major incident management. Provides mentorship, develops team capabilities, drives continual improvement, and collaborates with customers, vendors, and cross-functional teams. Requires substantial ASTRO P25 and LMR expertise, engineering leadership experience, and telecommunications or electrical engineering qualifications.

Leads a remote engineering team building scalable Python and Golang microservices for Canonical’s software distribution marketplaces. Responsibilities include mentoring and developing engineers, managing delivery and expectations, shaping technical strategy and roadmaps, reviewing code, guiding architecture, maintaining engineering quality, and collaborating with product managers, architects, other teams, open-source contributors, and commercial partners.

Lead Canva’s Embedded Production Engineering team, managing senior engineers who solve critical reliability, scalability, observability, data protection, and software safety challenges. Define the team’s operating model, prioritize high-impact engagements, influence engineering leaders across teams, establish reusable engineering standards, and develop senior technical leaders. The role requires strong software engineering, systems, cloud, reliability, and cross-organizational leadership experience.

Leads multiple engineering squads supporting property lodgement and financial settlement services. Responsibilities include coaching engineers, partnering with Product and Design, translating priorities into engineering plans, managing delivery risks and dependencies, improving system reliability and quality, reducing technical debt, supporting regulatory commitments, and advancing technology modernization while maintaining business-critical platform stability.

Lead Supabase’s Billing engineering team, overseeing people management, hiring, roadmap delivery, technical direction, partnerships, and incident response. Own systems covering subscriptions, usage-based billing, invoices, payments, taxation, entitlements, collections, and provider integrations. Build a healthy remote team, ensure predictable delivery, improve reliability and operational maturity, and coordinate with Product, Finance, Data, Support, Sales, and Partnerships on revenue-critical initiatives.

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 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.

Manage global operational risk programs including risk engineering, property loss prevention, and business resilience. Partner with stakeholders and vendors to drive governance, compliance, audits, remediation, data analysis, and program deployment to reduce loss and ensure business continuity across manufacturing and supply chain operations.

Lead multiple engineering squads across technical direction, architecture, delivery, and stakeholder management. Mentor squad leaders and engineers, manage engineering team leads, improve engineering practices, monitor delivery efficiency, promote modern development and DevOps practices, and contribute to building a high-quality engineering organization.

Lead Engineering Managers and multiple software engineering teams, shaping technology strategy, roadmaps, engineering practices, and delivery outcomes. Partner with Product and senior stakeholders to balance customer needs, quality, technical debt, cloud costs, and sustainability. Champion continuous delivery, automated testing, security, observability, AI adoption, and automation while measuring engineering improvements through outcome-focused metrics in a Microsoft-focused technology environment.

Lead the SSCS Add-On engineering team to develop security capabilities, managing delivery, team growth, and quality in a collaborative environment.

Lead and develop the site Engineering team, manage CAPEX/OPEX project portfolios from planning through commissioning, drive continuous improvement and asset optimization, ensure compliance with engineering standards and process safety, lead risk assessments and Management of Change activities, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver sustainable business results.

Lead a small AI engineering team to design, build and productionise ML systems focused on LLMs and foundation models. Develop AI features (document understanding, forecasting, conversational interfaces), implement MLOps (CI/CD, model versioning, monitoring), and deploy scalable, safe solutions on AWS (SageMaker, Bedrock, S3).

Lead and mentor engineers to design, build, and maintain scalable automation and onboarding systems. Implement AI/data-driven risk detection, collaborate with product/ops/compliance, drive architecture and reliability, and improve operational efficiency.

As an Engineering Manager, lead a team of engineers, coaching their development while ensuring quality results and implementing engineering processes.

Lead a distributed team of engineers overseeing Linux kernel delivery for Ubuntu, ensuring quality, security, and effective collaborative practices.

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team to optimize engineering and operations processes, ensuring quality managed services while collaborating with customers and stakeholders.

Manage and lead a growing engineering team for the BootStack service, ensuring operational excellence and quality service delivery to customers while fostering collaboration and product improvement.

Lead a team in developing scalable data solutions, mentor engineers, manage expectations, and contribute to code. Focus on high-quality software practices.

Manage engineering teams and operations for the BootStack service, ensuring quality and timely delivery of managed services while collaborating with stakeholders and optimizing team performance.