Staff Product Security Engineer - Scale Securely

Airwallex; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Airwallex is seeking a Staff Product Security Engineer to join our Information Security team. You will partner with Infrastructure, Product and Engineering to protect our networks, systems and data while enabling fast, secure product development.

This hands-on role designs, builds and maintains security controls and detection strategies, and leads incident response efforts to reduce risk across Airwallex' global platforms.

Qualifications

• 8+ years working in a security engineering or incident response role within a tech company.
• In depth expertise with at least one major cloud platform.
• Strong knowledge of common software development tools and infrastructure, including CI/CD tooling and pipelines.
• Comprehensive 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.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical security and software concepts to a non-technical audience.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Create security controls to strengthen Airwallex’s ability to scale securely.
• Design and deliver security improvements across applications, software, and services.
• Develop and operationalise detection strategies and response workflows for incident response.
• Build and enhance secure systems through strong integration, testing, operations, and maintenance practices.
• Leverage and analyse endpoint, network, and cloud telemetry to identify, investigate, and mitigate threats.
• Design, implement, and maintain cybersecurity infrastructure that improves resilience across the Airwallex environment.
• Investigate, contain, and respond to cybersecurity incidents to reduce risk and strengthen defensive capability.
• Assess and improve system and network security by identifying vulnerabilities, configuration issues, and remediation opportunities.
• Collect and analyse threat intelligence and forensic evidence to better understand, track, and disrupt threats.
• Conduct and support defensive operations, tactical forensics, and threat hunting to strengthen security outcomes.
• Partner with teams across Airwallex to embed security into new and existing applications, software, and services and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Security engineering experience

Incident response

Cloud platform expertise

CI/CD tooling

Security concepts to non-technical

Communication skills

Self-motivated

Education

Bachelor's in Cybersecurity or CS

Certifications (OSCP/GIAC/CEH)

Tools

Splunk

Kubernetes

GCP

Alibaba Cloud

Okta

GSuite

Cloud VPN

Python

Java/Kotlin

Job description

Airwallex is seeking a Staff Product Security Engineer to join our Information Security team. You will partner with Infrastructure, Product and Engineering to protect our networks, systems and data while enabling fast, secure product development.

This hands-on role designs, builds and maintains security controls and detection strategies, and leads incident response efforts to reduce risk across Airwallex' global platforms.