Airwallex

Staff Software Engineer, AI Tooling, Information Security

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7 hours ago
Sydney, Australia or Melbourne, AustraliaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead AI tool and application development from inception through implementation.
  • Build and maintain infrastructure for internal tooling, including Kubernetes clusters, serverless workloads, ETL pipelines, and terabyte-scale log pipelines.
  • Develop tools supporting threat hunting, remediation, security scanning, patching automation, gateways, and other security services.
  • Partner with engineering and product engineering teams to identify automation opportunities and deliver security outcomes.
  • Support incident response and mentor software engineers while raising the engineering bar across the team.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
  • At least 7 years of relevant software engineering experience and experience working with production codebases.
  • Experience with at least one scripting language such as Python and one systems programming language such as Go or C/C++.
  • Experience with modern cloud infrastructure, including data pipelines, serverless workloads, and Kubernetes.
  • Ability to work autonomously, deliver high-quality projects on time, investigate deeply, and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Preferred qualifications include experience at a high-growth technology company, hands-on AI application development, and Linux operating-system maintenance.

Benefits

  • Work from the Sydney or Melbourne office three days per week.
  • Join Airwallex’s internally built information security team, working on security systems at significant global scale and against real adversaries.
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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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