Staff Engineer | Cyber Security
Active / Open Until Filled
Apply NowStaff Engineer | Cyber Security
Active / Open Until Filled
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Date posted
July 22, 2026
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Closing date
Not Disclosed (Open Until Filled)
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Location
Sydney
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Salary
$123,500 - $208,000 /year
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Career level
Senior Level
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Experience
4 – 7 Years
Description
Macquarie Group is currently accepting applications for the role of Staff Engineer | Cyber Security, based out of their corporate offices in Sydney, Australia. This appointment offers an exceptional opportunity to join a globally recognized financial organization that combines entrepreneurial empowerment, disciplined risk governance, and a merit-based career trajectory.
The team operates at the intersection of international capital markets, advanced technology, and commercial enablement, delivering high-impact solutions across global businesses. In this role, the successful candidate will work alongside seasoned industry professionals to optimize mission-critical processes, manage risk effectively, and deliver commercially impactful solutions across key markets.
Opportunity Overview & Quick Facts
Key Responsibilities & Operational Scope
- Execute and drive build and deliver machine identity and authentication systems at the firm through hands-on engineering and technical leadership within your squad.
- Execute and drive solve hard problems, implementing workload identity infrastructure that integrates with cloud platforms, API gateways, and service meshes; building identity lifecycle automation that works at scale; delivering authentication solutions that span multiple identity layers.
- Execute and drive write production code, build tooling backed by working prototypes, own technical decisions within your domain, and raise the engineering bar through code review and mentorship.
Candidate Profile & Required Qualifications
- Experience building and operating workload identity infrastructure at scale – provisioning, rotating, and revoking identities for services across distributed systems.
- Experience implementing across identity layers: human IAM, application auth (OAuth/OIDC), cloud IAM (AWS/Azure/GCP), and API gateways—making them work together in practice.
- Knowledge of when machine identity should replace secrets, when to use attested identities vs tokens, and how to implement federation; you prove your views with working code and production data.
- Experience that you ship production code (Python, Go), review architecture, debug distributed auth failures, and mentor engineers; you influence through working systems, not presentations.
- Ability to engage with emerging identity patterns, contribute to internal standards, and bring practical improvements into the team's engineering practices.
- Understanding of identity protocols, JWTs, and signing well enough to build secure identity systems on top.
- Experience in identity lifecycle automation, SPIFFE/SPIRE implementation, HashiCorp Vault operation, service mesh or API gateway auth integration, or open-source contributions in identity projects is highly regarded.
What Macquarie Offers
- Market-Leading Rewards: Competitive base remuneration supplemented by performance-linked incentive programs.
- Flexible Work Frameworks: Modern hybrid working arrangements supporting professional productivity and personal balance.
- Professional Development: Clear internal mobility pathways, technical skill enhancement, and professional accreditation support.
- Comprehensive Wellbeing: Access to employee assistance programs, holistic healthcare coverage, and dedicated wellbeing initiatives.
- Global Network & Impact: Collaborative engagement with cross-border teams across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific regions.
Core Competencies & Key Technical Focus
Apply Directly on Macquarie Careers Portal
This position is actively accepting candidate submissions. Access the official Macquarie Group recruitment platform to review comprehensive operational criteria and lodge your formal application.