Staff Software Engineer, AI Tooling, Information Security

Airwallex; Sydney, Melbourne; Híbrido; AUD 180 000 - 240 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Airwallex is seeking a driven InfoSec engineer to lead the development of AI security tools and internal tooling infrastructure. You will work with Kubernetes clusters, serverless workloads, and ETL pipelines to strengthen security across systems and data.

You’ll mentor engineers, collaborate with product teams, and help raise the engineering bar, with offices in Sydney or Melbourne and a focus on autonomous, rapid delivery.

Qualificações

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
• At least 7 years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Experience with production codebases.
• Experience with Python and Go or C/C++.
• Experience with modern cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, serverless workloads, and Kubernetes.
• Strong autonomous work style and delivering high-quality projects on time.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder skills.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the development of AI security tools and applications.
• Build infrastructure for internal tooling with Kubernetes, serverless workloads, and ETL pipelines.
• Support incident response with threat hunting, remediation, and security scanning.
• Mentor software engineers and raise engineering standards across the team.

Conhecimentos

Python scripting

Go or C/C++

Kubernetes

Cloud infrastructure

ETL pipelines

Serverless workloads

Autonomy

Communication

Formação académica

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Security

Ferramentas

Linux

Descrição da oferta de emprego

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.

We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,300 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles to see it in full.

How you'll make impact

You'll lead the development of AI tools and applications that improve how Airwallex protects its systems, data, and employees. You'll build, monitor, and maintain the infrastructure behind internal tooling, including Kubernetes clusters, serverless workloads, ETL pipelines, and terabyte-scale log pipelines.

Lead the development of AI tools and applications from inception through implementation.

Build infrastructure that supports reliable internal tooling, including Kubernetes clusters, serverless workloads, ETL pipelines, and terabyte-scale log pipelines.

Support incident response by developing tools for threat hunting, remediation, and security scanning.

Partner with engineers and product engineering teams to identify automation opportunities and deliver security outcomes, including patching automation, gateways, and other services that reduce risk.

Mentor Software Engineers and help raise the engineering bar across the team.

You'll work from our Sydney or Melbourne office three days a week.

What we're looking for

Essentials

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
• At least 7 years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Experience working with production codebases.
• Experience with at least one scripting language, such as Python, and one systems programming language, such as Go or C/C++.
• Experience with modern cloud infrastructure, including data pipelines, serverless workloads, and Kubernetes.
• A track record of working autonomously and delivering high-quality projects on time.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• The ability to investigate deeply and find the best solution to a problem.
• Obsessive curiosity, with a willingness to ask questions, gather context, and keep learning.

Preferred

• Experience working in a high-growth technology company.
• Hands-on experience leveraging AI to build applications.
• Experience maintaining Linux operating systems.

You’ll thrive here if

• You're comfortable owning the roadmap yourself.
• You own the outcome and you don't wait for permission to fix what's broken.
• You're comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and moving quickly anyway.
• You communicate clearly and directly across cultures, and you're thoughtful about how context shifts meaning across borders.

Learn more about your team

InfoSec at Airwallex runs one of the most modern security teams in the world, protecting hundreds of thousands of customers and hundreds of billions of dollars. Our scale, funding, and industry make us a real target, so we skip the standard playbook of off-the-shelf tools and tiered SOC analysts and build almost everything ourselves, often with AI ahead of the rest of the industry. You'll go back to first principles constantly, because the off-the-shelf answer is rarely right for us, and we can build better than what already exists. If you want to build security from the ground up, against a real adversary, with people who are actually good at this, this is the team for you.

Equal opportunity