Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Melbourne

Lead Xero’s SRE team and reliability program across APAC and EMEA. Own HA/DR testing, incident command, reliability gap remediation, and improvements to detection, response, and prevention. Partner with platform, observability, database reliability, and shared services teams while reducing customer-detected incidents. Build and mentor a distributed engineering team, establish reliability practices, and maintain calm, effective incident response across time zones.

Leads ML and platform engineering teams building scalable, production-grade machine learning infrastructure. Responsibilities include coaching engineers, guiding architecture and engineering trade-offs, improving MLOps maturity and observability, translating business goals into delivery plans, managing roadmaps, maintaining system health, and supporting production incidents through code review, debugging, or hands-on development. The role supports AI products including conversational GenAI, automated bank reconciliation, document capture, and cash-flow forecasting.

The Engineering Manager will lead software delivery teams, champion AI workflows, resolve technical challenges, and enhance engineering practices to meet business goals.

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 Canva’s Core Production Engineering team, managing software engineers who build reliable, scalable services and solve complex cross-team production challenges. Sets team direction, priorities, and delivery goals; coaches engineers; drives adoption of engineering practices; and helps turn targeted solutions into reusable capabilities. The role requires strong systems, networking, cloud, reliability, architecture, and software engineering knowledge, with responsibility for shaping an evolving technical function.

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 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 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 technical support engineering team delivering forensic platform-level incident diagnosis, driving fixes and reliability improvements, and building automation and tooling (including AI) to reduce toil. Own on-call rotations, SLA reporting, stakeholder management, and cross-team coordination with Product and Engineering. Mentor engineers, shape agile practices, and drive support strategy for Australian clients while ensuring continuity across time zones.

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 and execute engineering for Machines4U: translate business priorities into roadmaps, manage a distributed team, modernise legacy systems, oversee platform integrations, ensure security/reliability/compliance, and partner with product and group engineering to deliver commercial outcomes.

Leads software engineering teams delivering scalable customer-facing applications, digital services, and internal platforms. Provides technical direction, drives architecture and engineering excellence, oversees development practices, resolves complex technical challenges, and supports platform modernization. The role also includes coaching engineers, managing stakeholders, improving automation, and leading distributed teams.

Lead and manage enterprise voice and data network operations, security, vendor relationships, upgrades, incident response, capacity planning, SLAs, and regional strategy while driving automation and AI improvements and supporting a 24/7 roster.

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.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead a remote team, manage MLOps projects, ensure high performance, and mentor engineers while driving product strategies.

Lead and mentor a team of engineers to enhance AppArmor security features, ensuring high quality results and collaboration with stakeholders.

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.