Staff AI Tooling Engineer - Secure Internal Platform

Airwallex; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Airwallex is seeking a seasoned Software Engineer for its AI Tooling team within Information Security. Based in Melbourne or Sydney, you will design, build, and operate the AI tooling platform used by employees across Airwallex.

You’ll partner with internal teams to create AI-powered applications, scale infrastructure, and mentor junior engineers. The role emphasizes autonomous delivery, strong collaboration, and pragmatic, scalable solutions to protect and optimize internal tooling at

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
• Minimum 8 years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Experience with production code bases.
• Experience with at least one scripting language (e.g. Python) and one systems programming language (e.g. Golang, C/C++).
• Experience with modern cloud infrastructure, including data pipelines, serverless workloads, and Kubernetes.
• Proven experience delivering projects autonomously on time and with high quality.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Python

Golang/C++

Kubernetes

Cloud infrastructure

ETL pipelines

Autonomous delivery

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Info Security

Tools

Docker

Linux

Job description

Airwallex is seeking a seasoned Software Engineer for its AI Tooling team within Information Security. Based in Melbourne or Sydney, you will design, build, and operate the AI tooling platform used by employees across Airwallex.

You’ll partner with internal teams to create AI-powered applications, scale infrastructure, and mentor junior engineers. The role emphasizes autonomous delivery, strong collaboration, and pragmatic, scalable solutions to protect and optimize internal tooling at