Staff Product Security Engineer

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software we empower over 200000 businesses worldwide including Brex Rippling Navan Qantas SHEIN and many more with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts payments spend management and treasury to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne we have a team of over 2200 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price Visa Mastercard Robinhood Ventures Sequoia Salesforce Ventures DST Global and Lone Pine Capital Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If youre ready to do the most ambitious work of your career join us.

Attributes We Value

We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact accelerated learning and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking and youre motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment dig deep with curiosity and make decisions from first principles balancing speed and rigor.

Youre humble and collaborative; turn zerotoone ideas into real products and you get stuff done end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here youll tackle complex highvisibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you lets build whats next.

About the team

Airwallexs 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 companyfrom secure product and infrastructure design to risk reduction incident response audits and complianceso security is built into how we operate not treated as a blocker.

Your role

As a Staff Product Security Engineer at Airwallex you will be a trusted member of the Information Security team and work closely with Infrastructure Product and Engineering teams across the business.

Reporting directly to the Product Security Engineering Manager this role will see you being a critical part of Airwallex helping to identify protect detect respond and recover the organisation from cybersecurity threats.

This is a dynamic and hands-on role that requires experience in designing developing and managing infrastructure projects processes and standards related to the security of our networks systems and applications.

What youll be doing

• Create and build security controls that strengthen Airwallexs ability to scale securely.

• Design and deliver security improvements across applications software and services.

• Develop and operationalise detection strategies and response workflows that improve the speed and effectiveness of incident response.

• Build and enhance secure systems through strong integration testing operations and maintenance practices.

• Leverage and analyse endpoint network and cloud telemetry to identify investigate and mitigate threats.

• Design implement and maintain cybersecurity infrastructure that improves resilience across the Airwallex environment.

• Investigate contain and respond to cybersecurity incidents to reduce risk and strengthen defensive capability.

• Assess and improve system and network security by identifying vulnerabilities configuration issues and remediation opportunities.

• Collect and analyse threat intelligence and forensic evidence to better understand track and disrupt threats.

• Conduct and support defensive operations tactical forensics and threat hunting to strengthen security outcomes.

• Partner with teams across Airwallex to embed security into new and existing applications software and services and drive continuous improvement.

Minimum Qualifications (must-have)

• 8 years working in a security engineering or incident response role within a tech company

• In depth expertise with at least one major cloud platform

• Strong knowledge of common software development tools and infrastructure including CI/CD tooling and pipelines

• Comprehensive 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

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

• 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

Highly Desired

• Bachelors degree in Cybersecurity Computer Science or similar

• Recognised training or cybersecurity certifications (eg OSCP GIAC CEH)

• Strong experience with Splunk and other common security monitoring tools

• Past DevOps/SRE experience with Kubernetes

• Experience with GCP or Alibaba Cloud (with or without certification)

• Experience with Okta GSuite and cloud-based VPN services

• Experience with Python Java/Kotlin

• Published articles journals or blogs related to cybersecurity

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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 dont 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.

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