18 hours ago
Base Salary
$220k - $280k/yr
Responsibilities
- Create and build security controls that enable the organization to scale securely.
- Design and deliver security improvements across applications, software, and services.
- Develop and operationalize detection strategies and incident-response workflows.
- Build and enhance secure systems through integration, testing, operations, and maintenance.
- Analyze endpoint, network, and cloud telemetry to identify, investigate, and mitigate threats.
- Design, implement, and maintain cybersecurity infrastructure that improves organizational resilience.
- Investigate, contain, and respond to cybersecurity incidents.
- Identify vulnerabilities, configuration issues, and remediation opportunities across systems and networks.
- Collect and analyze threat intelligence and forensic evidence.
- Conduct defensive operations, tactical forensics, and threat hunting.
- Partner with Infrastructure, Product, and Engineering teams to embed security into applications, software, and services.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in security engineering or incident response within a technology 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 attacker tools and techniques, their detection and prevention, and high-quality incident investigation and response.
- Strong communication skills for explaining technical security and software concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Ability to solve complex challenges in high-growth startup environments and learn new skills.
- Preferred qualifications include a bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or a similar field; recognized cybersecurity training or certifications such as OSCP, GIAC, or CEH; strong Splunk and security monitoring experience; DevOps/SRE experience with Kubernetes; GCP or Alibaba Cloud experience; Okta, GSuite, and cloud VPN experience; Python and Java/Kotlin experience; and published cybersecurity articles, journals, or blogs.
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About Airwallex
Airwallex builds a global payments and financial operations platform for businesses, offering payment acceptance, multi-currency accounts, FX and transfers, card issuing, treasury and spend management via APIs and web apps. It monetizes through transaction and foreign-exchange fees and related account services. Founded in Melbourne in 2015 and privately held, the company serves customers worldwide, with notable users including Brex, Canva and Qantas.