Senior Database SRE & AI-Driven Automation Engineer

Airwallex; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Airwallex is looking for a Senior Software Engineer for their Database SRE team in Seattle. The ideal candidate will design and build AI-driven tooling and automation for database infrastructure, primarily with PostgreSQL and Redis.

This hybrid role emphasizes engineering rigor and proactive collaboration with product teams to ensure database reliability and performance. Qualifications include strong backend programming skills and significant experience with database management.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Deep experience with PostgreSQL, performance tuning, and operational best practices.
• Experience with Redis and cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design and build automation for database operations.
• Establish database best practices and participate in on-call rotations.
• Collaborate with teams to diagnose performance issues.

Skills

Backend languages proficiency (Python, Go, Java, Kotlin)

PostgreSQL expertise

Redis experience

Cloud expertise (GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker)

System design skills

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Grafana

Prometheus

Datadog

Job description

Airwallex is looking for a Senior Software Engineer for their Database SRE team in Seattle. The ideal candidate will design and build AI-driven tooling and automation for database infrastructure, primarily with PostgreSQL and Redis.

This hybrid role emphasizes engineering rigor and proactive collaboration with product teams to ensure database reliability and performance. Qualifications include strong backend programming skills and significant experience with database management.