Senior Data Platform Engineer, Knowledge Platform & AI Enablement

The role

You will build the next generation of data and knowledge infrastructure to turn structured and unstructured information into context for people and AI systems. This involves designing, developing, and operating large-scale distributed data systems across batch and streaming workloads.

What you will do

• Own the design, development, and operation of large-scale distributed data systems
• Drive foundational technical decisions across data processing and infrastructure
• Build and automate high-performance distributed data processing systems
• Lead medium- and large-scale engineering projects from design through delivery
• Raise engineering standards through scalable data architecture and shared tooling
• Provide technical guidance for other engineers

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience as a data engineer
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience
• Strong programming skills in one or more of Kotlin, Java, Scala, Python, and SQL
• Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems
• Strong working knowledge of real-time and batch data processing systems
• Experience working with data at petabyte scale
• Experience making technical decisions across data processing, service-layer infrastructure, application-layer systems, third-party data integrations, and performance optimisation
• Experience developing and automating large-scale, high-performance distributed data processing systems
• A track record of driving medium- and large-scale engineering projects from design through delivery
• A commitment to high-quality software engineering practices and scalable data infrastructure
• Experience mentoring or providing technical guidance to other engineers

Nice to have

• Experience with Kafka, data lakes, Spark, Flink, dbt, Spring Boot, Hadoop, BigQuery, or Snowflake
• Experience contributing to shared data engineering standards, tools, or platforms
• Experience with next-generation data architectures such as lakehouse systems
• Experience working in a high-growth or scaling environment

About the company

Airwallex is an AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. The company provides financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.