Staff Software Engineer, AI Tooling

About Airwallex

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 to see it in full.

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.

This role is based in San Francisco, or Melbourne, or Sydney

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.

Who you are

We’re looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

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