Staff Software Engineer, AI Tooling, Information Security

AU - Melbourne · AU - Sydney · 7+ years experience · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026

At a glance

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.
We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.
We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,300 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles https://www.airwallex.com/en-us/operating-principles to see it in full.

You'll lead the development of AI tools and applications that improve how Airwallex protects its systems, data, and employees.
You’ll build, monitor, and maintain the infrastructure behind internal tooling, including Kubernetes clusters, serverless workloads, ETL pipelines, and terabyte-scale log pipelines.

Lead the development of AI tools and applications from inception through implementation.
Build infrastructure that supports reliable internal tooling, including Kubernetes clusters, serverless workloads, ETL pipelines, and terabyte-scale log pipelines.
Support incident response by developing tools for threat hunting, remediation, and security scanning.
Partner with engineers and product engineering teams to identify automation opportunities and deliver security outcomes, including patching automation, gateways, and other services that reduce risk.
Mentor Software Engineers and help raise the engineering bar across the team.

A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
At least 7 years of relevant software engineering experience.
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.
A track record of working autonomously and delivering high-quality projects on time.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
The ability to investigate deeply and find the best solution to a problem.
Obsessive curiosity, with a willingness to ask questions, gather context, and keep learning.