Top Engineering Jobs in Melbourne

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.

Coordinates multidisciplinary digital engineering and BIM activities for large infrastructure projects. Responsibilities include model reviews, clash detection, issue resolution, CAD and digital model compliance, CDE workflows, information management, asset data validation, project reporting, quality assurance, and digital deliverable handover.

Leads Splunk’s APJC Partner Solutions Engineering organization, including PSE and PSA teams. Defines partner technical strategy, builds executive relationships, expands partner-led routes to market, and scales repeatable architectures, practices, and enablement. Oversees technical sales support for strategic opportunities, aligns Sales, Engineering, Customer Experience, Marketing, and partner teams, and drives partner capability, pipeline, revenue influence, talent development, and organizational performance across Asia, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.

Lead engineering delivery and people leadership across a 40–50-person organization through 5–7 Development Managers. Own delivery performance, capacity planning, operating models, engineering metrics, hiring, organizational design, career pathways, retention, quality, reliability, security, and technical execution. Partner closely with Product, Technology, People & Culture, and executive leadership to align engineering capacity with roadmap priorities and ensure predictable, scalable delivery across a product-led SaaS environment.

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.

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; participates in red-team and penetration-testing exercises; develops security metrics and management reports; and leads junior analysts as needed. The role requires expertise in security monitoring, incident response, forensics, network and host controls, cloud security, and multiple forensic and SIEM tools.

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 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.

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.

Leads the growth, technical delivery, and management of dam infrastructure projects across Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific. Responsibilities include dam surveillance, safety reviews, risk and dam-break assessments, water security studies, business development, proposal support, client relationship management, project delivery, and mentoring engineers. The role provides technical leadership across the full dam lifecycle and requires consulting experience, chartered engineering credentials, and strong water resources expertise.

Perform manual and functional testing across SAP sales and procurement systems during SIT and UAT. Create and execute test cases, coordinate UAT with business stakeholders, track defects through resolution, collaborate with offshore teams, and validate requirements and outcomes in an enterprise delivery environment.

Lead architecture and delivery of a composable, API-first Core Commerce Platform powering checkout, payments, OMS, inventory availability, loyalty, and post-order experiences. Drive integration of packaged solutions (SFCC, Fluent Commerce), payments, social and agentic commerce, and AI-native capabilities. Own SLAs, reliability, security (PCI-DSS), roadmap, and engineering standards while building and leading high-performing, on-site platform teams.

Leads quality engineering for consumer-facing web and mobile experiences. Designs scalable automation frameworks, develops functional, API, integration, regression, and end-to-end test suites, and integrates quality gates into CI/CD pipelines. Validates accessibility, performance, reliability, and cross-device behavior; investigates defects, analyzes quality metrics, and drives continuous improvement. Collaborates with product and engineering teams, mentors engineers, and applies AI-assisted testing practices.

Design, build, optimize, and support scalable consumer-facing mobile applications across iOS and Android using React Native, TypeScript, and JavaScript. Develop native integrations, reusable components, secure architectures, API integrations, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and production monitoring. Collaborate cross-functionally, contribute to releases and Agile delivery, mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and drive mobile engineering excellence, accessibility, performance, and reliability.

Own Linktree’s AI operations platform, including pipelines, model and prompt versioning, evaluations, monitoring, rollback, cost, latency, and reliability. Drive internal AI adoption across Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Support through tooling and agent workflows. Establish practical governance for data handling and vendor risk, make build-versus-buy decisions, align AI investment with business priorities, and mentor engineers and analysts.

The Systems Modeller will capture and model complex Defence requirements, perform Mission Engineering, develop MBSE architectures, and ensure integration across lifecycle phases.

Contribute to production software systems supporting integrations, workflows, APIs, and internal tools. Build React frontend components, develop REST API and ETL integrations, write automated tests, debug distributed systems, and participate in code reviews and technical discussions. The internship includes mentorship, scoped engineering projects, and a final presentation of outcomes. No prior professional software engineering experience is required, though prior internship or equivalent experience is required.

Maritime and coastal engineering professionals will design, assess, and deliver ports, harbours, marine structures, coastal protection, dredging, and resilience projects. Responsibilities include structural analysis, coastal process investigations, numerical modelling, technical documentation, project delivery, stakeholder engagement, and multidisciplinary collaboration. Senior positions additionally provide technical leadership, mentoring, design assurance, project management, client engagement, proposals, and business development.

Leads the DTC Platform Engineering organization, overseeing cloud foundations, DevOps, CI/CD, Kubernetes, integrations, quality engineering, performance, security, developer tooling, and AI-enabled engineering platforms. Defines multi-year platform strategy, infrastructure and security standards, self-service capabilities, and delivery governance. Partners with product engineering, security, finance, and infrastructure teams while building and mentoring multidisciplinary engineering teams focused on scalable, secure, reliable, and cost-efficient software delivery.

Lead transformation of APAC LiveOps into a modern SRE and CloudOps capability. Define operating model, improve reliability, observability, incident response, automation and infrastructure as code. Partner with Product, Platform, Security and regional teams to reduce downtime, increase resilience and embed SRE practices across the region while building and coaching high-performing teams.

Lead quality engineering strategy for web and mobile consumer experiences. Design scalable automation frameworks, establish risk-based testing and governance, build automated web, mobile, API, integration, and end-to-end suites, and embed quality across delivery teams. Drive accessibility, performance, cross-browser and cross-device validation, release readiness, quality metrics, experimentation testing, and continuous improvement while partnering with Product, Design, Engineering, and Architecture.

Leads frontend architecture and engineering for large-scale consumer web applications. Defines standards, reusable patterns, and headless API architectures using ReactJS, TypeScript, Next.js, and GraphQL. Drives performance, Core Web Vitals, accessibility, security, experimentation, design systems, and global scalability through CDN and edge technologies. Partners cross-functionally, mentors engineers, influences architecture across teams, and guides technical decisions for reliable, accessible, high-performing digital experiences.

Leads architecture, development, and evolution of large-scale React Native applications across iOS and Android. Defines mobile engineering standards, reusable patterns, security and privacy practices, release processes, accessibility, performance optimization, API and commerce integrations, experimentation, and design systems. Provides technical direction, partners cross-functionally, makes architectural decisions, mentors engineers, and improves delivery through AI-assisted engineering tools.

Lead and mentor data engineering teams to design, build, and scale batch and real-time data pipelines, data warehouses, and analytics-ready data marts. Drive adoption and safe productionization of Agentic AI (text-to-SQL, remediation agents, self-healing pipelines), define best practices and guardrails, and partner with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into robust, cloud-based data solutions.