Staff Security Engineer

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 100,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 1,500 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech located across more than 20 offices across the globe. Valued at US$5.6 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Sequoia, Lone Pine, Greenoaks, DST Global, Salesforce Ventures and Mastercard, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you're ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

About the team

Our Security Engineering Team are a highly skilled, proactive team that ensure the security of our products as we scale-up all around the World. They work closely with our Product, Engineering and IT teams and help to identify, protect and respond to cybersecurity threats. 

What you’ll do

As a Staff Security Engineer, you are a trusted member of the Airwallex Information Security team. You'll work closely with our Product, Engineering and IT teams and identify, protect and respond to cybersecurity threats, as well as being a trusted partner to them.

This role can be based in Melbourne, Sydney, Singapore or San Francisco .

Responsibilities:

This role is a hands-on and highly influential position that requires experience in designing, developing and managing infrastructure projects and processes that are related to the security of networks, systems and applications.

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:

• You have 8+ years of experience in security engineering and incident response

• Experience with common security monitoring tools, including Splunk, and recent hands-on experience in scripting and Python

• Recognised training or cybersecurity certifications  (such as OSCP, GIAC, CEH....)

• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS... we don't mind which)
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Good knowledge of software development and CI/CD tooling

Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters.  Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s).  Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.