Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Melbourne

Hands-on Engineering Manager leading a team of 4–6 engineers while contributing technically. Responsibilities include coaching, Agile/Scrum delivery, software design and coding practices, roadmap planning, stakeholder communication, quality improvement, and delivery metrics. The role requires full-stack development, cloud-based SaaS experience, web and API development, DevOps and SRE knowledge, and experience with testing and automation.

Engineering Manager responsible for leading a software engineering team, managing sprint planning and delivery, maintaining engineering quality standards, mentoring engineers, identifying risks, and partnering with Product, Design, and the Director of Engineering. This player-coach role requires technical leadership, experience with Bubble.io or low-code platforms, agile delivery expertise, and support for hiring and onboarding as the company grows.

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 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.

Leads the Supabase Spark engineering team by developing people, managing hiring, owning roadmap delivery, coordinating cross-team requests, maintaining service objectives, and handling incidents. The role requires technical credibility in backend and database systems, experience managing remote engineering teams, strong performance management skills, and the ability to build high-trust, asynchronous, globally distributed teams.

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 software engineering team responsible for internal applications, integrations, and engineering platforms. Sets technical direction, manages people and delivery, oversees software lifecycle practices, and ensures secure, reliable Azure operations. The role includes hands-on design leadership across APIs, databases, DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, application security, observability, and complex technical problem-solving.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

The Engineering Manager leads the Ubuntu Desktop Apps team, overseeing application design, development, and system integration while mentoring engineers and promoting continuous improvement in software quality.