Live job market
Who's hiring software engineers in Australia
73 software engineer roles are open in Australia right now across 12 employers, 7% of them remote. Everything below is counted from live postings on company career pages.
- Live openings
- 73
- Employers
- 12
- Remote share
- 7%
- Share of Australia
- 22.5%
of all openings we track there
Companies posting the most software engineer roles in Australia
- 1Shieldai46 open roles
- 2MongoDB7 open roles
- 3Andurilindustries5 open roles
- 4Datadog4 open roles
- 5Stripe3 open roles
- 6UpGuard2 open roles
- 7soficonv1 open role
- 8Algolia1 open role
- 9Cribl1 open role
- 10Databricks1 open role
What Australia employers ask for
Share of the 60 most recent software engineer postings that mention each skill. Read it as a checklist for your resume.
- cpp28%
- leadership18%
- linux15%
- collaboration12%
- problem-solving8%
- computer-vision8%
- python5%
- mongodb5%
- java3%
- event-driven3%
- creativity3%
- datadog3%
Where these roles are, inside Australia
Locations exactly as the employers wrote them on the posting.
- 1Melbourne46 roles
- 2Sydney9 roles
- 3Sydney, Australia7 roles
- 4Australia5 roles
- 5Seoul, South Korea; Sydney, Australia; Tokyo, Japan4 roles
- 6Macquarie Park, Australia1 role
- 7Western Australia, Australia1 role
Recently posted
The newest software engineer openings in the feed for Australia.
Technical Services Engineer
MongoDB
SydneyStaff Engineer, Compute Foundation
Stripe
SydneyStaff Engineer, Compute Foundation
Stripe
SydneyTechnical Services Engineer, Infrastructure
MongoDB
SydneySoftware Engineer 3
MongoDB
SydneyCustomer Success Engineer
Algolia
RemoteAustraliaCustomer Success Engineer, Sydney
Cribl
RemoteAustraliaGTM Engineer
UpGuard
RemoteAustraliaCustomer Success Engineer, Australia
ExtraHop
RemoteAustraliaSenior Robotics Engineer
Andurilindustries
Sydney, AustraliaSenior Robotics Software Engineer, Payload Integration
Andurilindustries
Sydney, AustraliaSenior Software Engineer (Flight Software)
Andurilindustries
Sydney, Australia
Software Engineers in other markets
The same role, counted the same way, everywhere else we have coverage.
- 1United States1,848 open
- 2Germany533 open
- 3United Kingdom403 open
- 4Canada401 open
- 5India271 open
- 6France150 open
- 7Switzerland135 open
- 8Spain80 open
Other roles hiring in Australia
Software Engineers in Australia: the questions people ask
- How many software engineers jobs are open in Australia?
- 73 right now, 7% of them remote. The number comes from live postings on company career pages and refreshes hourly, so it reflects roles still accepting applications rather than an all-time archive.
- Which companies hire software engineers in Australia?
- The most active right now are Shieldai, MongoDB, Andurilindustries, Datadog, Stripe. Shieldai alone has 46 open software engineer roles.
- What skills do Australia employers ask software engineers for?
- Across 60 recent postings, the most requested are cpp (28% of ads), leadership (18% of ads), linux (15% of ads), collaboration (12% of ads), problem-solving (8% of ads).
- How current is this data?
- Counts refresh hourly. Postings drop out automatically when they expire, and the month-over-month figure compares today against a snapshot recorded 30 days ago, so a rise or fall reflects real movement rather than a change in how we count.
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