Senior Data & AI Infra Engineer (Kubernetes & Kafka)

Airwallex; United States; On-site; USD 96,000 - 133,000; Full time

Job summary

Airwallex, a leading AI-native financial operating system, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to shape data and AI infrastructure. You will design and operate distributed systems on Kubernetes, scale streaming and real-time workloads, and advance AI gateways and model-routing platforms to support rapid growth.

You will collaborate across engineering, data, security, and ML teams to deliver reliable self-service platforms, improve scalability, and ensure robust observability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering, owning production systems end to end.
• Strong experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting production Kubernetes environments.
• Experience building or operating distributed data infrastructure with Kafka, Spark, or Flink OR experience developing AI infrastructure such as AI gateways or model-routing platforms.
• Hands‑on experience with at least one major public cloud platform, such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate highly available data and AI infrastructure on Kubernetes and public cloud platforms.
• Develop scalable platforms for streaming, batch processing, and real-time data workloads using Kafka, Spark, and Flink.
• Build and evolve AI infrastructure, including AI gateways, model-routing layers, traffic management, rate limiting, authentication, observability, and usage controls.
• Develop self-service capabilities that enable data, AI, and application teams to deploy and operate workloads safely and independently.
• Partner with engineering teams to translate emerging data and AI requirements into durable platform capabilities.

Skills

Kubernetes operations

Kafka

Spark

Flink

Go

Python

Java

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Distributed systems concepts

Ownership mindset

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

Spark

Flink

AI gateways

Model-routing platforms

Public cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Job description

Airwallex, a leading AI-native financial operating system, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to shape data and AI infrastructure. You will design and operate distributed systems on Kubernetes, scale streaming and real-time workloads, and advance AI gateways and model-routing platforms to support rapid growth.

You will collaborate across engineering, data, security, and ML teams to deliver reliable self-service platforms, improve scalability, and ensure robust observability.