Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

The role

You will own the strategy, architecture, development, and operation of data and AI platforms. You will shape the evolution of the data ecosystem into AI agent-ready infrastructure to support real-time performance and decision-making.

What you will do

• Own the strategy, architecture, development, and operation of Airwallex's data and AI platforms.
• Identify and solve company-wide challenges through scalable data platform solutions.
• Shape the evolution of the data ecosystem into AI agent-ready infrastructure.
• Raise the bar for technical excellence by solving complex problems hands-on.
• Advocate for strong engineering practices.
• Mentor engineers and technical leaders.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data platforms or an equivalent combination of professional experience and academic exposure in a quantitative field.
• Experience leading company-wide initiatives across multiple teams or influencing technical roadmap planning.
• A track record of collaborating with diverse teams and stakeholders to drive tangible business outcomes.
• The ability to balance execution and velocity with in-depth research, statistical understanding, and scalable system design.
• Experience mentoring and investing in the development of scientists, engineers, and peers.
• Technical leadership experience across significant data platform projects, including ETL frameworks, metrics stores, infrastructure management, and data security.
• Experience building, deploying, and maintaining reliable data pipelines across multiple geographies and at scale.
• Familiarity with workflow or orchestration frameworks such as Airflow and dbt.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience designing data processing patterns for a modern lakehouse architecture.
• Experience designing and developing standard framework modules, high-performance services, and client libraries for big data.
• Experience with technologies such as GCP, Databricks, BigQuery, Dataproc, Kafka, Kubernetes, Spark, Dataflow, Google Cloud Storage, and Airflow.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to rapidly evaluate technologies and run proofs of concept to inform architecture decisions.
• Experience thriving in a complex environment.

About the company

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