Lead AI Tooling Engineer - Security Platform

Airwallex; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Airwallex is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to design, build, and operate an AI tooling platform for internal use. You will work with cross‑functional teams to identify high‑impact automation opportunities, scale infrastructure, and mentor junior engineers.

This role is based in Melbourne or Sydney with a focus on secure, scalable tooling. Minimum 5 years in software engineering, with Python, Golang/C++, Kubernetes, and data pipelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in software engineering.
• Experience with production code bases.
• Experience with at least one scripting language (e.g. Python) and one systems programming language (eg. Golang, C/C++)
• Experience with modern cloud infrastructure, including data pipelines, serverless workloads, and Kubernetes
• Proven experience working autonomously on projects – delivering them to a high quality and on time.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to dive deep to find the best solution to a problem
• Obsessive curiosity and a willingness to ask questions, gather context, and learn

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of AI tools and applications, from inception to implementation.
• Support incident response efforts by building ad-hoc tools for threat hunting, remediation and scanners.
• Build, monitor, and maintain underlying infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters, serverless workloads, and ETL pipelines.
• Sit with engineers to identify opportunities for automation and tooling development
• Partner with product engineering teams to drive security outcomes – such as automation for patching, and development of gateways and other services to decrease risk.
• Mentor and help grow other Software Engineers in the team.

Skills

Python

Golang

C/C++

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Data pipelines

Production codebase

Autonomy

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Linux

Job description

Airwallex is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to design, build, and operate an AI tooling platform for internal use. You will work with cross‑functional teams to identify high‑impact automation opportunities, scale infrastructure, and mentor junior engineers.

This role is based in Melbourne or Sydney with a focus on secure, scalable tooling. Minimum 5 years in software engineering, with Python, Golang/C++, Kubernetes, and data pipelines.