The Staff Platform Engineer will lead technical development of FXDBS platform, focusing on scalability, security, and driving engineering best practices while mentoring teams and improving platform performance.
Organization : CommBank, we never lose sight of the role we play in other people’s financial wellbeing. Our focus is to help people and businesses move forward to progress. To make the right financial decisions and achieve their dreams, targets and aspirations. Regardless of where you work within our organisation, your initiative, talent, ideas and energy all contribute to the impact that we can make with our work. Together we can achieve great things.Job Title : Staff Platform EngineerLocation: BangaloreBusiness & Team:The FXDBS squad sits within Capital Markets Technology and provides core platforms supporting FX trading, pricing, risk, and downstream processing. We build and operate critical technology that enables the Markets business to trade safely, efficiently, and at scale.Impact & Contribution:As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will be a senior individual contributor providing technical leadership across the FXDBS platform landscape. You will focus on building resilient, scalable, and secure platform capabilities, while enabling product engineering teams to deliver value quickly and safely. Roles & Responsibilities:Advertising End Date: 30/03/2026
- Provide technical expertise and architectural acumen for shared FXDBS platform services
- Design, build, and operate highly available, scalable platforms supporting real-time FX workloads
- Drive engineering standards, reference architectures, and best practices across the FXDBS squads
- Enable teams through self-service platform capabilities, automation, and reusable components
- Partner with engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into robust platform solutions
- Champion DevOps and SRE practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and operational excellence
- Improve platform resilience, observability, performance, and cost efficiency
- Ensure platforms meet security, risk, and regulatory requirements
- Mentor senior engineers and uplift technical capability across the broader Markets Technology community
- Should have 12+ years of experience
- Strong experience in platform or infrastructure engineering within complex distributed systems
- Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (e.g. Java, C#, Python)
- Experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms (AWS preferred)
- Solid understanding of databases (SQL and NoSQL) and data modelling for high-throughput systems
- Experience with event-driven architectures, messaging, or streaming platforms
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and infrastructure as code
- Strong focus on non-functional requirements including availability, performance, security, and scalability
- Experience with monitoring, observability, and production support of mission-critical systems
- Experience working in financial services or other regulated environments
- Understanding of FX or capital markets trading workflows is advantageous
- Familiarity with real-time pricing, market data, or trade lifecycle processing is beneficial
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology
If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We’re keen to support you with the next step in your career.
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Top Skills
AWS
C#
Java
NoSQL
Python
SQL
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