Staff Software Engineer - AI Tools & SecurityAutomation

Airwallex; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Airwallex is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to build internal AI tooling and secure, scalable infrastructure in a high-growth environment. You will lead AI tool development, partner with internal teams, and mentor junior engineers to advance security and automation across the platform.

As part of the Information Security-aligned engineering team, you’ll own terabyte-scale data pipelines, Kubernetes-based workloads, and innovative automation initiatives while maintaining high-quality

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.
• 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 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

8+ years experience

Python

Golang/C/C++

Production code bases

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Serverless

Autonomous delivery

Strong communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Linux

Terraform

Job description

Airwallex is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to build internal AI tooling and secure, scalable infrastructure in a high-growth environment. You will lead AI tool development, partner with internal teams, and mentor junior engineers to advance security and automation across the platform.

As part of the Information Security-aligned engineering team, you’ll own terabyte-scale data pipelines, Kubernetes-based workloads, and innovative automation initiatives while maintaining high-quality