Staff Corporate Security Engineer

The role

You will defend enterprise systems and employees against threats like malware, phishing, and unauthorised access. You will design security controls, build alerts, and improve incident response investigations across a modern corporate environment.

What you will do

• Defend enterprise systems and employees against malware, phishing and unauthorised access.
• Design, develop, test and evaluate corporate security controls across identity providers, endpoints, corporate networks and other platforms.
• Build security alerts and workflows, and hunt through log sources to identify emerging threats.
• Deploy, configure and operate security tooling with a focus on measurable impact.
• Improve the quality and depth of incident response investigations across the corporate environment.

Required qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or a similar field.
• 7+ years’ experience in a security engineering or incident response role within a technology company.
• Strong experience with CrowdStrike, Splunk or other common security monitoring tools.
• An in-depth understanding of common attacker tools and techniques, including how to detect and prevent them.
• Demonstrated ability to respond to incidents with thorough, high-quality investigations.
• Experience securing endpoints, including with MDM tooling such as Kandji or Intune.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical security and software concepts to non-technical audiences.
• A passion for solving complex challenges in high-growth startups.
• Self-motivation and a drive to learn new skills or deepen existing ones.

Nice to have

• Experience with GCP, Alibaba Cloud or other cloud platforms.
• Experience with Okta, Google Workspace and cloud-based VPN services.
• A strong engineering background with scripting experience in Python, Bash or PowerShell.

About the company

Airwallex is an AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. The company started in Melbourne in 2015 and is co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore.