Staff Software Engineer (AI Tooling)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (AI Tooling): Building Airwallex’s AI tooling platform to help employees create apps, dashboards, and workflow tools faster with an accent on platform engineering, integrations, and scale. Focus on delivering internal automation, managing terabyte-scale log pipelines, and streamlining operations using AI.

Location: Based in San Francisco, Melbourne, or Sydney

Company

Airwallex is a unified payments and financial platform for global businesses, empowering over 200,000 companies worldwide through proprietary infrastructure and software.

What you will do

• Lead the development of AI tools and applications from inception to implementation.
• Build ad-hoc tools for threat hunting, remediation, and scanners to support incident response.
• Develop and maintain underlying infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters, serverless workloads, and ETL pipelines.
• Collaborate with engineers to identify and implement automation and tooling opportunities.
• Partner with product engineering teams to drive security outcomes through automated patching and risk-reducing services.
• Mentor and help grow other software engineers within the team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer with experience in production code bases.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language (e.g., Python) and one systems programming language (e.g., Golang, C/C++).
• Experience with modern cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, serverless workloads, and Kubernetes.
• Proven track record of delivering high-quality projects autonomously and on time.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for technical and non-technical stakeholder management.

Nice to have

• Experience working in a high-growth tech company.
• Hands-on experience leveraging AI to build applications.
• Experience maintaining Linux operating systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to tackle complex, high-visibility problems with exceptional teammates.
• Culture of ownership and founder-like energy with a focus on real impact.
• Accelerated learning and career growth within a globally scaling fintech leader.
• Environment that encourages using AI to work smarter and solve problems faster.