Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Sydney

Lead and grow the engineering team responsible for BrightWrite’s personalization systems, including real-time offer selection, recommendation, experimentation, and contextual bandit capabilities. Own the technical roadmap, architecture, reliability, observability, and operational excellence of the platform. Partner with Data Science to productionize models through serving, registries, feature pipelines, and monitoring while ensuring regulatory compliance and measurable customer and partner impact.

Leads the engineering team responsible for Monoova’s core payments platforms, combining people leadership, technical direction, roadmap ownership, delivery management, hiring, coaching, and stakeholder communication. The role oversees secure, resilient, scalable payment solutions across account-to-account, card, scheme, and digital asset capabilities. It also guides engineering practices, architecture, cloud platforms, compliance, cost management, and adoption of AI-assisted software development.

Provides strategic leadership, governance, and operational oversight for Digital Engineering services across infrastructure and construction businesses. Leads digital engineering strategies, BIM and information management practices, governance systems, capability development, continuous improvement, project delivery support, bid development, client presentations, resource planning, and cost recovery. Requires extensive experience leading Digital Engineering functions in major infrastructure, engineering, or construction environments.

Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team while partnering with Product Owners to set direction, deliver complex software projects, guide technical decisions, and maintain production-system health. The role emphasizes people leadership, technical excellence, operational excellence, vendor and partner engagement, cloud-native architecture, and continuous improvement.

Hands-on Engineering Manager leading a team of 4–6 engineers while contributing technically. Responsibilities include coaching, Agile/Scrum delivery, software design and coding practices, roadmap planning, stakeholder communication, quality improvement, and delivery metrics. The role requires full-stack development, cloud-based SaaS experience, web and API development, DevOps and SRE knowledge, and experience with testing and automation.

Leads and develops application engineering teams across Australia and New Zealand for critical power solutions. Provides technical leadership on UPS, batteries, DC systems, power distribution, monitoring software, standards, compliance, complex bids, system designs, and customer-specific engineering. Partners with sales, product, project, software, services, factories, and global engineering teams while driving talent development, technical excellence, quality, and delivery.

Lead and develop a team of full-stack engineers, overseeing team health, performance, coaching, hiring, onboarding, and career growth. Partner with technical leaders and Product to support roadmap delivery while removing process and organizational blockers. Foster an inclusive, feedback-driven culture and use strong technical depth in system design, software architecture, and engineering practices to engage with complex challenges.

Lead and develop engineering teams while providing hands-on technical direction, delivery oversight, and platform engineering leadership. Improve infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, reliability, developer tooling, and engineering workflows. Partner with squad leads and cross-functional leaders to prioritize work, remove blockers, manage technical debt, and improve delivery predictability. Drive practical AI adoption across development and operations, measuring its effect on quality, speed, and team effectiveness.

Engineering Manager responsible for leading a software engineering team, managing sprint planning and delivery, maintaining engineering quality standards, mentoring engineers, identifying risks, and partnering with Product, Design, and the Director of Engineering. This player-coach role requires technical leadership, experience with Bubble.io or low-code platforms, agile delivery expertise, and support for hiring and onboarding as the company grows.

Lead and develop a data and analytics engineering team, guiding Scrum delivery, technical excellence, operational reliability, and cross-functional collaboration. The role manages product priorities, technical debt, quality, observability, and incident practices while supporting scalable data platforms and multi-cloud data warehouse migrations. It also champions AI-assisted development, distributed systems, data integrity, and continuous improvement across engineering processes.

Lead a team of eight frontend and backend engineers building engagement, billing, invoicing, payments, and collections capabilities. Responsibilities include hiring and developing engineers, improving technical quality and delivery speed, guiding architecture and migrations, owning reliability and observability, and partnering with Product and technical leaders. The role requires strong distributed-systems knowledge, data-integrity expertise, and effective communication across globally distributed teams.

Leads software engineering teams building search, browse, merchandising, recommendation, personalization, and consumer engagement capabilities. Owns roadmap execution, delivery planning, operational excellence, engineering quality, team metrics, talent development, and stakeholder collaboration. Drives experimentation, AI-assisted engineering, scalable services, and continuous improvement across digital consumer experiences.

Leads and develops software engineering teams building high-volume commerce services for basket, checkout, payments, promotions, taxation, order processing, and fulfillment. Owns roadmap execution, delivery planning, operational excellence, engineering quality, team metrics, hiring, mentoring, and talent development. Partners with product and technology stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, highly available omnichannel commerce capabilities while driving AI-assisted engineering practices and continuous improvement.

Leads the ANZ sales engineering team, mentors team members, and partners with sales, product, and R&D to support revenue growth. Develops technical solutions, presentations, demonstrations, proof-of-concepts, architectures, proposals, and customer documentation for Cyera’s data security platform. Advises customers throughout the sales cycle, tracks market and technology trends, supports thought leadership activities, and maintains relationships with customers and partners. Travel of up to 75% is required.

Leads the Supabase Spark engineering team by developing people, managing hiring, owning roadmap delivery, coordinating cross-team requests, maintaining service objectives, and handling incidents. The role requires technical credibility in backend and database systems, experience managing remote engineering teams, strong performance management skills, and the ability to build high-trust, asynchronous, globally distributed teams.

Leads Learnosity’s distributed Platform Engineering team across Australia and Dublin. Responsibilities include people leadership, backlog and roadmap ownership, platform technology decisions, delivery management, CloudOps partnership, stakeholder communication, and engineering standards. The role requires strong AWS, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, containerization, observability, and Python expertise, while translating technology strategy into reliable platform improvements and developer enablement.

Leads end-to-end AI and machine learning solution delivery for enterprise customers across APAC. Manages and mentors AI engineers and data scientists, oversees staffing and concurrent engagements, and guides predictive ML, GenAI, LLM, RAG, and agentic system architecture. Partners with customers and internal teams on technical strategy, delivery risks, scoping, and reusable accelerators while remaining hands-on with prototyping, code reviews, debugging, deployment, monitoring, and governance.

Leads Snap’s Detection and Response team, owning security monitoring initiatives, investigation tooling, automation, incident triage, and response operations. The manager prioritizes long-term security outcomes, collaborates across teams during incidents, guides strategic planning, develops team members, manages performance, and recruits security engineers. The role requires expertise in detection and response, operating system internals, cloud platforms, threat intelligence, and automation.

Leads a software engineering team responsible for internal applications, integrations, and engineering platforms. Sets technical direction, manages people and delivery, oversees software lifecycle practices, and ensures secure, reliable Azure operations. The role includes hands-on design leadership across APIs, databases, DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, application security, observability, and complex technical problem-solving.

Lead enterprise data engineering enablement by designing reusable pipeline standards, self-service templates, CI/CD controls, dbt testing, observability, and cost guardrails. Manage and develop 8–10 data engineers while governing external delivery partners, technical acceptance criteria, and fixed-outcome SOWs. Translate data architecture into production-grade ELT pipelines, certify enterprise data assets, improve reliability, and drive pragmatic adoption of Generative and Agentic AI across engineering workflows.

Leads a group of software engineering teams through Engineering Managers, owning team health, technical quality, organizational structure, staffing, and talent development. The role manages Engineering Managers and senior individual contributors, supports scalable and maintainable systems, coaches leaders, fosters psychological safety, and partners cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership. It also encourages thoughtful use of AI to improve team productivity and impact.

Lead the Engineering Management System roadmap and drive engineering capability, process, and tool improvements across Northrop Grumman Australia. Partner with program teams, engineering leaders, and stakeholders to improve governance and execution, prioritize resources, resolve delivery challenges, and maintain momentum across multiple programs. Lead a small team and support continuous improvement in a complex defence engineering environment.

Leads the ML organization developing Zendesk Custom Agents, setting strategy, managing and mentoring engineers and scientists, and delivering production generative AI systems. Oversees agent reasoning, tool use, knowledge grounding, evaluation, reliability, safety, latency, and cost optimization. Partners across Product, Engineering, Design, Security, and Science to establish quality standards, monitor production performance, and connect ML improvements to measurable customer outcomes.

Leads the Site Reliability Engineering organization for PUMA’s DTC platform. Defines SRE strategy, reliability standards, incident management, observability, resilience, cloud governance, infrastructure automation, and operational readiness. Oversees Google Cloud Platform operations, deployment safety, disaster recovery, FinOps, and peak-event preparedness. Builds and develops SRE teams, coaches engineering leaders, manages hiring and workforce planning, and promotes sustainable on-call practices across high-volume digital platforms.

Leads and develops a small team of staff software engineers working on Unreal Engine-based core technology. Partners with engineering and product leaders to set priorities, guide technical direction, deliver reliable reusable solutions, and support architectural growth. Responsibilities include recruiting, coaching, performance management, cross-team collaboration, knowledge sharing, and maintaining hands-on involvement through prototyping, tooling, and engineering improvements.