Senior Software Engineer, AI Tooling (Information Security)

You'll design, build, and operate the AI tooling platform used by employees across Airwallex. Working closely with internal teams, you'll identify high-impact opportunities to develop AI-powered applications and automation, build platform capabilities and integrations, and scale the infrastructure that powers our internal tooling, including terabyte-scale log pipelines. We're not tied to specific projects, languages, or technologies. Instead, we value engineers who dive deep to solve complex problems with pragmatic, scalable solutions. You'll also mentor junior engineers and help grow our world-class engineering team.

Responsibilities

Lead the development of AI tools and applications, from inception to implementation; Support incident response efforts by building ad-hoc tools for threat hunting, remediation and scanners; Build, monitor, and maintain underlying infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters, serverless workloads, and ETL pipelines; Sit with engineers to identify opportunities for automation and tooling development; Partner with product engineering teams to drive security outcomes – such as automation for patching, and development of gateways and other services to decrease risk; Mentor and help grow other Software Engineers in the team

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field; Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in software engineering; Experience with production code bases; Experience with at least one scripting language (e.g. Python) and one systems programming language (eg. Golang, C/C++); Experience with modern cloud infrastructure, including data pipelines, serverless workloads, and Kubernetes; Proven experience working autonomously on projects – delivering them to a high quality and on time; Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders; Ability to dive deep to find the best solution to a problem; Obsessive curiosity and a willingness to ask questions, gather context, and learn

Nice to have

Experience working in a high-growth tech company; Hands on experience with AI – specifically leveraging AI to build applications; Experience maintaining Linux operating systems