Commonwealth Bank

Principal Software Engineer

India · Work style not stated · Full time

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EmployerCommonwealth Bank
LocationIndia
Work styleWork style not stated
Employment typeFull time
Employer posted7 Oct 2026

Organization:
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. Our leadership in digital banking, customer safety, and responsible AI reflects our commitment to building a brighter future for all. Our values are reflected in our high-trust brand reputation. CBA is consistently ranked among Australia’s most valuable and trusted brands.

Job Title: Principal Software Engineer
Location: Bangalore - Manyata Tech Park

Business & Team: CTO

Impact & Contribution:

As a Principal Engineer who can move comfortably between software, data, platforms and infrastructure. You enjoy solving complex engineering problems, building practical solutions and helping other engineers improve their engineering practices.

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Roles & Responsibilities:

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.
Build and operate cloud solutions, preferably on AWS, using Infrastructure as Code and automated delivery practices.
Partner with architecture, security, risk, data and engineering teams to deliver solutions aligned with enterprise standards.
Help shape the evolution of enterprise technology platforms, including CMDB, IT Asset Management (ITAM) and ServiceNow capabilities.
This is 100% hands-on engineering and coding, with direct accountability for design, development, testing, and delivery.

Essential Skills:

14–20 years of strong software engineering experience, including senior technical leadership.
Strong software engineering fundamentals with deep experience in one or more modern programming languages such as Java, Golang, Python or TypeScript/JavaScript.
Experience designing data-intensive, API-led, microservices, serverless or event-driven systems.
Strong experience designing and building APIs, integrations, automation and data pipelines.
Experience designing, building and operating cloud solutions, preferably on AWS.
Strong understanding of DevSecOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, observability and reliability engineering.
Experience working with large-scale enterprise data and integration architectures.
Ability to work across application, infrastructure, cloud, data, security and enterprise architecture domains.

Education/Qualifications: A bachelor and/or masters degree in engineering OR any equivalent degree.

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