Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Principal Software Engineer
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is hiring a Principal Software Engineer in Bengaluru, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this software engineer role is Uses AI ●●○○: an ordinary role that requires AI tools.
- The posting mentions AI automation among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a lead role.
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia has 200 other open roles on Level.
- Posted in the last few days.
AI in this role
Organization- At CommBank, we never lose sight of the role we play in delivering a brighter future for our customers and supporting our communities. Our focus is to help customers and communities move forward to progress. To make the right financial decisions and achieve their dreams, targets and aspirations. Regardless of where you work within our organization, your initiative, talent, ideas and energy all contribute to the impact that we can make with our work. Together we can build tomorrow’s bank today.
Role Title – Engineering Manager
Business Unit– Group Security
Location- Bangalore- Manyata tech Park
Impact and Contributions: Technical Strategy & Platform Evolution
Define and drive the technical vision for security engineering platforms, automation capabilities, API services and AI-enabled engineering solutions.
Cross-Squad Technical Leadership
Provide technical leadership across multiple security engineering squads.
Hands-On Engineering
Contribute directly to architecture, solution design and software development.
Key Responsibilities:
- Proven experience leading technical strategy across multiple engineering teams, platforms or domains.
- Strong hands-on software engineering experience at Staff, Principal or equivalent level.
- Deep expertise in backend engineering, frontend engineering, software architecture and systems design.
- Experience building scalable APIs, automation platforms and distributed systems.
- Experience working with large-scale datasets, signals, graph technologies or intelligent automation platforms is highlyregarded.
- Strong cloud engineering experience across AWS, Azure or similar environments.
- A track record of uplifting engineering capability, standards and technical excellence.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to influence senior technical and business leaders.
- Experience operating in complex environments where ambiguity, innovation and continuous learning are essential.
- Experience in cyber security, security engineering, identity and access management, incident response or related
Requirement-
Education Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
Organization- At CommBank, we never lose sight of the role we play in delivering a brighter future for our customers and supporting our communities. Our focus is to help customers and communities move forward to progress. To make the right financial decisions and achieve their dreams, targets and aspirations. Regardless of where you work within our organization, your initiative, talent, ideas and energy all contribute to the impact that we can make with our work. Together we can build tomorrow’s bank today.
Role Title – Engineering Manager
Business Unit– Group Security
Location- Bangalore- Manyata tech Park
Impact and Contributions: Technical Strategy & Platform Evolution
Define and drive the technical vision for security engineering platforms, automation capabilities, API services and AI-enabled engineering solutions.
Cross-Squad Technical Leadership
Provide technical leadership across multiple security engineering squads.
Hands-On Engineering
Contribute directly to architecture, solution design and software development.
Key Responsibilities:
- Proven experience leading technical strategy across multiple engineering teams, platforms or domains.
- Strong hands-on software engineering experience at Staff, Principal or equivalent level.
- Deep expertise in backend engineering, frontend engineering, software architecture and systems design.
- Experience building scalable APIs, automation platforms and distributed systems.
- Experience working with large-scale datasets, signals, graph technologies or intelligent automation platforms is highlyregarded.
- Strong cloud engineering experience across AWS, Azure or similar environments.
- A track record of uplifting engineering capability, standards and technical excellence.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to influence senior technical and business leaders.
- Experience operating in complex environments where ambiguity, innovation and continuous learning are essential.
- Experience in cyber security, security engineering, identity and access management, incident response or related
Requirement
Software Engineering
Python development and backend engineering.
Modern frontend development (React, TypeScript or similar).
API design and development.
Distributed systems and scalable architecture.
Automation and software tooling.
Emerging Technology
Exposure to AI-powered development or operational tooling.
Experience working with graph-based data models, signals, relationship analytics or knowledge graphs.
Interest in applying AI, graph intelligence and identity-aware engineering to solve real-world engineering and security challenges.
Experience evaluating and adopting new technologies.
Education Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
Organization- At CommBank, we never lose sight of the role we play in delivering a brighter future for our customers and supporting our communities. Our focus is to help customers and communities move forward to progress. To make the right financial decisions and achieve their dreams, targets and aspirations. Regardless of where you work within our organization, your initiative, talent, ideas and energy all contribute to the impact that we can make with our work. Together we can build tomorrow’s bank today.
Role Title – Engineering Manager
Business Unit– Group Security
Location- Bangalore- Manyata tech Park
Impact and Contributions: Technical Strategy & Platform Evolution
Define and drive the technical vision for security engineering platforms, automation capabilities, API services and AI-enabled engineering solutions.
Cross-Squad Technical Leadership
Provide technical leadership across multiple security engineering squads.
Hands-On Engineering
Contribute directly to architecture, solution design and software development.
Key Responsibilities:
- Proven experience leading technical strategy across multiple engineering teams, platforms or domains.
- Strong hands-on software engineering experience at Staff, Principal or equivalent level.
- Deep expertise in backend engineering, frontend engineering, software architecture and systems design.
- Experience building scalable APIs, automation platforms and distributed systems.
- Experience working with large-scale datasets, signals, graph technologies or intelligent automation platforms is highlyregarded.
- Strong cloud engineering experience across AWS, Azure or similar environments.
- A track record of uplifting engineering capability, standards and technical excellence.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to influence senior technical and business leaders.
- Experience operating in complex environments where ambiguity, innovation and continuous learning are essential.
- Experience in cyber security, security engineering, identity and access management, incident response or related
Requirement
- Software Engineering
- Python development and backend engineering.
- Modern frontend development (React, TypeScript or similar).
- API design and development.
- Distributed systems and scalable architecture.
- Automation and software tooling.
Emerging Technology
Exposure to AI-powered development or operational tooling.
Experience working with graph-based data models, signals, relationship analytics or knowledge graphs.
Interest in applying AI, graph intelligence and identity-aware engineering to solve real-world engineering and security challenges.
Experience evaluating and adopting new technologies.
Education Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
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Advertising End Date: 29/11/2026How we rate this
Principal Software Engineer at Commonwealth Bank of Australia rates 48 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Uses AI. An ordinary role that requires AI tools.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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Pay
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- $168k
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