Staff Corporate Security Engineer

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 our operating principles to see it in full.

About the team

Airwallex’s Information Security team partners closely with engineering, IT, and other stakeholders to protect our systems, data, and employees while enabling the business to move quickly. The team helps build and maintain strong security practices across the company—from secure product and infrastructure design to risk reduction, incident response, audits, and compliance—so security is built into how we operate, not treated as a blocker.

Your role

As a Staff Corporate Security Engineer, you will be a critical part of defending Airwallex’s enterprise systems and employees from threats such as malware, phishing and unauthorised access.

This role is a highly technical opportunity to detect, investigate and prevent security issues across a modern corporate environment. You will work on digital forensics, incident response and tool development and deployment, protecting a range of corporate IT platforms from endpoints to identity providers.

This role is based in San Francisco, or Melbourne, or Sydney or Singapore

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to incident response for malware, phishing, digital forensics.

• Design, develop, test, and evaluate new corporate security controls for a rapidly growing business.

• Perform incident response and hunt through log sources to identify new threats.

• Design and implement security alerts and workflows to support the incident response lifecycle.

• Secure corporate IT infrastructure and remediate issues across identity providers, endpoints, corporate networks and other platforms.

• Deploy, configure and operate security tooling with a laser focus on impact.

Who you are

We’re looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

• A passion for solving the complex challenges of high-growth startups.

• Self motivation and drive to learn new skills, or dive deeper into existing skills.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or similar.

• 7+ years working in a security engineering or incident response role within a tech company.

• Strong experience with Crowdstrike, Splunk or other common security monitoring tools.

• In depth understanding of common attacker tools and techniques, how they can be detected and prevented, and ability to respond to incidents with high depth and quality of investigation.

• Experience with GCP, Alibaba Cloud or other cloud platforms is preferred.

• Experience with Okta, Google Workspace and cloud-based VPN services is preferred.

• Experience securing endpoints, including with MDM tooling such as Kandji, Intune

• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical security and software concepts to a non-technical audience.

Preferred qualifications:

• Strong engineering background with Scripting experience such as with Python, Bash, Powershell.

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Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.