Senior Software Engineer, AI Tooling

The role

You will build AI tools and applications used by Airwallex employees. You will work across platform engineering, security, automation, and infrastructure to help teams operate more effectively.

What you will do

• Lead the development of AI tools and applications from inception through implementation
• Build, monitor, and maintain infrastructure including Kubernetes clusters, serverless workloads, ETL pipelines, and terabyte-scale log pipelines
• Partner with engineers and product engineering teams to identify opportunities for automation and tooling development
• Support incident response by building tools for threat hunting, remediation, and security scanning
• Deliver security improvements such as automated patching, gateways, and other services that reduce risk
• Mentor Software Engineers and help grow the engineering team

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field
• 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
• Experience working with production codebases
• Experience with at least one scripting language, such as Python, and one systems programming language, such as Go or C/C++
• Experience with modern cloud infrastructure, including data pipelines, serverless workloads, and Kubernetes
• A track record of working autonomously on projects and delivering high-quality work on time
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• The ability to dive deep to find the best solution to a problem
• Strong curiosity and a willingness to ask questions, gather context, and learn

Nice to have

• Experience working in a high-growth technology company
• Hands-on experience with AI, specifically leveraging AI to build applications
• Experience maintaining Linux operating systems

About the company

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. It provides financial infrastructure for global commerce and is co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore.