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.

Leads software engineering across Jetstar’s booking, payment, identity, and travel journeys. Oversees engineering managers, cyber engineering, cloud security, critical incident readiness, resilience, delivery quality, contracted engineering partners, and modern AI-assisted practices. Requires accountability across multiple domains, secure-by-design expertise, vulnerability management, and recovery planning for critical systems.

Leads hands-on engineering teams responsible for Jetstar’s customer-facing digital platforms, including reservations, web and mobile apps, payments, identity, membership, cybersecurity, and incident readiness. Owns technical direction, architecture, roadmaps, reliability, security, platform costs, vendor performance, and engineering capability. The role requires leading large-scale migrations and operating production systems while coordinating permanent, contracted, and offshore engineers.

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 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 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.

Advise clients on DevOps, DevSecOps, platform engineering, automation, and cloud transformation. Conduct maturity assessments, develop engineering transformation roadmaps, define standards and reference architectures, and lead implementation across the delivery lifecycle. Mentor engineering teams, support proposals and presentations, and build trusted relationships with technology and business stakeholders.

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.

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 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.

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).