Staff Software Engineer

Employment Type
Permanent
Closing Date
21 July 2025 11:59pm
Job Title
Staff Software Engineer
Job Summary

As a Staff Engineer you model the highest standards of software engineering practice in the work you do. Acting with a sense of urgency, whilst remaining flexible you put customer needs first. You actively use your breadth and depth of expertise to build capability and raise work standards in the teams you are working in.
Job Description
Who We Are

We're an iconic Aussie brand with a global footprint. Our purpose is to build a connected future so everyone can thrive. We're all about providing the best experience and delivering the best tech on the best network.

This includes making Telstra the place you want to work. For you, that means a having career that grows with you and working with a team powered by human connection that prioritises wellbeing and choice.

Focus of the Role

This role as Staff Engineer is key to the success of the Financial Technology group at Telstra.

What We Offer

Performance-related pay

Access to thousands of learning programs so you can level-up

Global presence across 22 countries; opportunities to work where we do business.

Purchased annual leave scheme

Additional Telstra day off

Additional 30% off Telstra products and services

Toolkit provided (laptop + mobile phone + plan paid for)

What You’ll Do

Product & Technology - Software Engineering & IT develops and maintains Telstra's software and IT systems, working on some really cutting-edge technologies.

Responsibilities

· Actively participate in building chapter technical capability through direct mentoring of the team in software engineering practices, understanding of new and emerging technologies, tools, approaches and processes.

· Contribute to continuous evolution of technical components managed by domain by working on technology and architecture roadmaps (mid-term and long-term views).

· Own the engineering operations for the services that the DevOps teams have deployed in production.

· Work across teams to foster an architecture that enables iterative, autonomous development and future scaling. Provide guidance to multiple teams in anticipation of future use cases, helping them make design decisions that minimize the cost of future changes.

· Acquire domain knowledge as needed to drive the work through customer centric lens

· Build strong commercial capability across multiple teams by modelling well developed commercial thinking, balancing cost and value to decide the most economic action the delivers good outcomes.

· Foster a culture of observability across several teams and help them use operational data to improve stability and performance of their domains.

· Actively collaborate with the security team, to foster and model a security first mindset and apply the organization's security strategy across multiple teams. Be able to guide teams through these processes and continuously improve this culture.

· Demonstrate and influence effective decision making and responsible actions, without having the total picture to handle risk, change, and uncertainty across several teams during routine business, as well as when in high pressure situations.

· Actively build a culture of knowledge sharing and documentation that is based on giving and receiving positive and constructive feedback. Use this as a base for continuous learning and capability building.

· Significantly contribute to function and organisation strategy, practices and planning by drawing on your expertise and thorough understanding of the work across multiple team domains.

· Actively models Telstra’s values and facilitates inclusive discussions across multiple teams that create goal driven alignment with organisational strategy and principles, as well as identifying actionable continuous improvement opportunities.

· Contribute to recruitment of permanent employees, and partner resources to build highly productive teams

· Ensure that co-workers are treated respectfully and without any form of discrimination, harassment or victimisation

About You

Must have

· Degree level IT qualifications in Software or Systems Engineering.

· 10 years+ hands on experience in developing spring boot applications, in-depth knowledge of microservices architecture

· Strong background in Programming Languages (Java/Python/Node.JS), Tools and Frameworks.

· Strong background in Software Product Architecture, Development, Testing, and Support of Production Software

· Involved into design and implementation of secure, scalable, fault tolerant systems in cloud (AWS)

· Experience with microservices architecture and development and container orchestration (docker, K8 or other containerisation tech)

· Experience with Operations decision making and incident management.

· Understanding of Security (Authentication and Authorisation)

· Experience with SQL and NoSQL DBs

· Experience in DevOps software development/deployment practices (including CI and CD), source control and pipelines as code, to reduce cycle time while retaining quality

· Understands version control and various branching strategies (what are the issues/benefits following branching strategies)

Desirable:

· APIGEE or Nginx or similar API gateway experience

· Observability tools - New relic, Splunk, Datadog, ELK stack etc

· Experience in software performance improvements

· Well versed with Linux

We're amongst the top 2% of companies globally in the CDP Global Climate Change Index 2023, being awarded an 'A' rating. If you want to work for a company that cares about sustainability, we want to hear from you.

As part of your application with Telstra, you may receive communications from us on +61 440 135 548 (for job applications in Australia) and +1 (623) 400-7726 (for job applications in the Philippines and India).

When you join our team, you become part of a welcoming and inclusive community where everyone is respected, valued and celebrated. We actively seek individuals from various backgrounds, ethnicities, genders and disabilities because we know that diversity not only strengthens our team but also enriches our work. We have zero tolerance for harassment of any kind, and we prioritise creating a workplace culture where everyone is safe and can thrive .

As part of the hiring process, all identified candidates will undergo a background check, and the results will play a role in the final decision regarding your application.

We work flexibly at Telstra. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you. When you apply, you can share your pronouns and / or any reasonable adjustments needed to take part equitably during the recruitment process.

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