Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure AI)

Location: Hybrid role based in Seattle, WA, United States

Salary: $140,000–$240,000 annual base pay, plus potential equity and bonus

Company

Airwallex provides a unified payments and financial platform for global businesses, including business accounts, payments, spend management, treasury, and embedded finance.

What you will do

• Build goal-oriented AI agents on the Quartermaster platform to automate SRE, DevOps, and DBA workflows.
• Develop agents for incident investigation and remediation, infrastructure provisioning, deployment orchestration, database operations, and capacity management.
• Design safe and reliable agent loops covering planning, reasoning, tool use, error recovery, auditing, and human escalation.
• Integrate agents with Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Aliyun, monitoring platforms, databases, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Define evaluation metrics and frameworks for task completion, accuracy, resolution time, and escalation rates.
• Collaborate with SRE, DevOps, and platform engineering teams to identify and automate high-value operational workflows.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong backend development skills in Python, Go, Java, or Kotlin.
• Practical experience with cloud platforms, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD systems.
• Strong system design skills for reliable, safe, and scalable systems interacting with production infrastructure.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills in a global, cross-functional environment.
• Hands-on experience building agentic AI systems that plan, reason, and execute multi-step tasks using LLMs, including agent loops, tool orchestration, state, and memory.

Nice to have

• Experience with LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, custom agent frameworks, or LLM APIs such as OpenAI and Anthropic.
• Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or the ELK stack.
• Database administration or automation experience, including migrations, query optimization, and backup or recovery.
• Knowledge of SRE practices such as incident response, runbooks, postmortems, SLOs, and SLIs.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on infrastructure AI systems intended to transform how operational work is performed.
• Founder-like ownership, fast execution, curiosity, and first-principles decision-making are valued.
• US-based employees are eligible for medical, dental, vision, 401(k), disability, life insurance, and well-being benefits.
• US-based employees receive 20 paid vacation days and 12 paid company holidays annually.
• Additional compensation may include equity, annual bonuses, commissions, or RSUs.