Staff Software Engineer, AI Tooling

About the team: You’d be joining the team building Airwallex’s AI tooling platform. A product that helps employees turn ideas into working apps, dashboards, and workflow tools faster, with strong focus on platform engineering, integrations, security, and scale. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Your role will be delivering AI Tooling being leveraged by all Airwallex employees. You’ll have the opportunity to partner with internal teams to help identify projects that can drive impact – like building internal automation tooling, owning our terabyte-scale log pipelines, and using AI to streamline how our team operates. We’re not tied to specific projects, languages, and technology – we rely on smart people diving deep to find the best solutions to hard problems. You’ll also be mentoring junior team members and continuing to 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; 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer; 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