Staff Platform Engineer, AI Security

Commonwealth BankMelbourneHybridFull-time1 week ago

Staff Platform Engineer, AI Security role at CommBank in Melbourne, focused on designing and building shared platform capabilities that protect generative AI, LLM and agentic workloads. Combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership across cloud, security, platforms and AI. Requires extensive platform/software/cloud/SRE experience and strong software engineering capability.

What you'll do

Lead the architecture and engineering of platform capabilities that protect AI applications, services and workloads
Build reusable services, APIs, libraries, templates and automation for policy enforcement, configuration management and telemetry
Design integration patterns for securing AI traffic, model interactions, APIs and agentic architectures
Establish engineering standards and technical guardrails using automated testing, infrastructure-as-code, configuration-as-code and modern continuous delivery practices
Design capabilities for resilience, scalability and maintainability, understanding latency, throughput and capacity impact of controls within AI request paths
Lead prototypes and proofs of concept, guiding experiments towards secure and production-ready services
Establish observability through metrics, logs, traces, dashboards and alerting
Mentor engineers and influence technical decisions across security, cloud, platform and application teams

What you need

Must-have

GoPythonJavaTypeScriptKubernetesContainersOrchestrationInfrastructure-as-Code

Soft skills

Technical leadershipMentoringInfluencing decisionsEngineering judgementCommitment to simple, reusable and reliable solutions

Platform EngineeringAI SecurityCloudFinancial ServicesStaff EngineerSecurity EngineeringKubernetesGenerative AI

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