Staff Corporate Security Engineer

Airwallex; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 119,668 - 183,021; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology firm based in San Francisco is seeking a Staff Corporate Security Engineer to protect enterprise systems from threats such as malware and phishing. This role demands strong incident response and security engineering skills with at least 7 years of experience in a tech environment. The ideal candidate will work on digital forensics, incident response, and tool development. Join a dynamic team committed to building a robust global financial platform.

Qualifications

• 7+ years working in a security engineering or incident response role within a tech company.
• Strong experience with security monitoring tools.
• In‑depth understanding of common attacker tools and techniques.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to incident response for malware and phishing.
• Design security controls for the business.
• Perform incident response and identify new threats.

Skills

Crowdstrike

Splunk

Incident response

Digital forensics

Security engineering

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Cybersecurity

Tools

GCP

Alibaba Cloud

Okta

Google Workspace

MDM tooling such as Kandji

PowerShell

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 200,000 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.

Founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 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.

Your role

As a Staff 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.

What You’ll Be Doing

• 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.

What You’ll Bring

• 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.
• 7+ 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.
• Scripting experience such as with Python, Bash, PowerShell.

Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third‑Party Recruiters

To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page. Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.

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.

Compensation Range: A$170K - A$260K