12 hours ago
Base Salary
$180k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and build foundational storage, infrastructure components, and high-availability service layers.
- Lead technical decisions and develop high-performance distributed systems for real-time AI enablement and global financial data.
- Improve performance across state management, checkpointing, memory management, and exactly-once processing.
- Build and integrate scalable vector indexing, agentic workflows, and real-time data streaming capabilities.
- Own the full software development lifecycle for batch and streaming systems processing petabytes of data across more than 30 global regions.
- Develop shared tooling, SDKs, and automation frameworks that improve engineering productivity.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, technical guidance, and delivery leadership.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems or infrastructure platforms.
- Strong computer science fundamentals, including distributed systems, memory management, and networking protocols.
- Proficiency in Java, Kotlin, or Go.
- Hands-on experience with or strong interest in Kafka, Flink, Spark, Kubernetes, or OLAP engines.
- Experience taking complex technical challenges from design through production stability.
- Experience with performance tuning and systems internals, including state management, checkpointing, and exactly-once semantics.
- Track record of technical leadership through architecture decisions, design reviews, or mentorship.
- Curiosity about AI/ML infrastructure and real-time systems, with an emphasis on business impact.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring three days per week from the Seattle office.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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.