Staff Software Engineer, AI Tooling

• 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.

Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Tool, Financial Operations, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Financial Systems, Realtime Operating System, Reporting Dashboards, Machine Tool, Team Building, * 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, * Experience working in a high-growth tech company.
• Hands on experience with AI - specifically leveraging AI to build applications
• Experience maintaining Linux operating systems

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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 ouroperating principles to see it in full., 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