Principal Software Engineer

About the role

Commonwealth Bank of Australia is the largest and number one bank in Australia, serving over 17 million customers. We maintain a high-trust brand reputation built on financial strength, innovation, and community impact. As of July 2025, CBA holds market cap of approximately USD 195.7 billion, ranking us among the top 100 most valuable companies globally.

What you'll do

• Provide hands-on technical leadership, helping set engineering direction and mentoring engineers
• Design, build and evolve platforms, services, APIs and reusable engineering capabilities
• Build scalable integration and data solutions connecting applications, infrastructure, cloud, configuration, asset, security, risk and operational data
• Establish engineering standards and patterns covering architecture, code quality, APIs, testing, observability, security, resilience and deployment
• Improve data quality, automation and governance through well-engineered data pipelines, APIs and integration patterns

What you need

• 15–27 years in software engineering
• Java
• Python
• TypeScript
• JavaScript
• ServiceNow
• Microservices
• B.Tech or B.E. or M.Tech

Good to have

• AWS
• ETL
• Terraform
• CI/CD
• Test automation