Corporate Security Engineer

Airwallex; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Airwallex is seeking a Corporate Security Engineer in San Francisco to defend enterprise systems and employees from threats such as malware and phishing. You will work on digital forensics, incident response, and tool development across endpoints to identity providers.

Join a high‑growth team, collaborate across security and engineering, and help build security controls for a rapidly scaling business while ensuring robust risk management and compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or similar.
• 3+ years in a security engineering or incident response role within a tech company.
• Experience with Crowdstrike, Splunk or other common security monitoring tools.
• Understanding attacker tools and techniques, with ability to respond to incidents with in‑depth investigation.
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP, Alibaba Cloud) and cloud-based identity/vpn solutions is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to incident response for malware, phishing, digital forensics.
• Design, develop, test, and evaluate new corporate security controls for a rapidly growing business.
• Perform incident response and hunt through log sources to identify new threats.
• Design and implement security alerts and workflows to support the incident response lifecycle.
• Secure corporate IT infrastructure and remediate issues across identity providers, endpoints, corporate networks and other platforms.
• Deploy, configure and operate security tooling with a laser focus on impact.

Skills

Security engineering

Incident response

Threat hunting

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or similar

Tools

Crowdstrike

Splunk

Okta

Google Workspace

Kandji

Intune

GCP

Alibaba Cloud

Cloud-based VPNs

Job description

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 250,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US$11 billion and backed by world‑leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

Attributes We Value

We hire successful builders with founder‑like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role‑related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor.

You’re humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end‑to‑end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next.

About the team

Airwallex’s Information Security team partners closely with engineering, IT, and other stakeholders to protect our systems, data, and employees while enabling the business to move quickly. The team helps build and maintain strong security practices across the company—from secure product and infrastructure design to risk reduction, incident response, audits, and compliance—so security is built into how we operate, not treated as a blocker.

What You’ll do

As a Corporate Security Engineer, you will be a critical part of defending Airwallex’s enterprise systems and employees from threats such as malware, phishing and unauthorised access.

This role is a highly technical opportunity to detect, investigate and prevent security issues across a modern corporate environment. You will work on digital forensics, incident response and tool development and deployment, protecting a range of corporate IT platforms from endpoints to identity providers.

This role is based in San Francisco

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to incident response for malware, phishing, digital forensics.

• Design, develop, test, and evaluate new corporate security controls for a rapidly growing business.

• Perform incident response and hunt through log sources to identify new threats.

• Design and implement security alerts and workflows to support the incident response lifecycle.

• Secure corporate IT infrastructure and remediate issues across identity providers, endpoints, corporate networks and other platforms.

• Deploy, configure and operate security tooling with a laser focus on impact.

Who you are

We’re looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A passion for solving the complex challenges of high‑growth startups.

• Self motivation and drive to learn new skills, or dive deeper into existing skills.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or similar.

• 3+ years working in a security engineering or incident response role within a tech company.

• Strong experience with Crowdstrike, Splunk or other common security monitoring tools.

• In depth understanding of common attacker tools and techniques, how they can be detected and prevented, and ability to respond to incidents with high depth and quality of investigation.

• Experience with GCP, Alibaba Cloud or other cloud platforms is preferred.

• Experience with Okta, Google Workspace and cloud‑based VPN services is preferred.

• Experience securing endpoints, including with MDM tooling such as Kandji, Intune

• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical security and software concepts to a non‑technical audience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong Engineering mindset with scripting experience such as with Python, Bash, Powershell.

Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.