Airwallex

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Data & AI)

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10 hours ago
Seoul, Korea, SouthSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate highly available data and AI infrastructure on Kubernetes and public cloud platforms.
  • Develop scalable platforms for streaming, batch processing, and real-time data workloads using Kafka, Spark, and Flink.
  • Build AI infrastructure including gateways, model-routing layers, traffic management, rate limiting, authentication, observability, and usage controls.
  • Develop self-service platform capabilities that let data, AI, and application teams deploy and operate workloads independently.
  • Partner across engineering disciplines to translate data and AI requirements into durable platform capabilities.
  • Improve the scalability, reliability, efficiency, visibility, and cost management of data and AI infrastructure.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering owning production systems end to end.
  • Strong experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting production Kubernetes environments.
  • Experience with distributed data infrastructure such as Kafka, Spark, or Flink, or with AI infrastructure such as AI gateways or model-routing platforms.
  • Hands-on experience with at least one major public cloud platform: AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure.
  • Strong knowledge of cloud and container networking, including DNS, load balancing, ingress, service discovery, TLS, routing, and network security.
  • Proficiency in one or more of Go, Python, or Java and experience writing maintainable production software.
  • Understanding of distributed-systems concepts including availability, consistency, fault tolerance, backpressure, and horizontal scalability.
  • Experience operating critical infrastructure with infrastructure-as-code, automated delivery, and modern observability practices.
  • Strong debugging, communication, collaboration, and ownership skills.
  • Especially valuable experience includes internal developer platforms, SGLang, vLLM, NVIDIA Triton Inference Server, GPU scheduling, model parallelism, inference optimization, cost efficiency, and relevant open-source contributions.

Benefits

  • The role is based in Seoul, South Korea.
  • The position offers the opportunity to work across application, data, machine learning, security, and infrastructure teams on high-impact data and AI infrastructure.

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About Airwallex

1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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