Senior IT Engineer, Legal, Risk and Compliance

About the role

Airwallex, the AI-native financial operating system used by more than 675,000 businesses, is hiring a Senior IT Engineer in its Enterprise Engineering team in San Francisco. You will act as a trusted technical partner to the Legal, Risk and Compliance (LRC) teams, helping them work faster by building workflows, automations and systems. You will work three days a week from the San Francisco office.

Key responsibilities

• Own solutions end to end, from proof of concept through implementation, operations, maintenance and incident response.
• Build workflows, automations and orchestrations that connect systems and improve how LRC teams operate.
• Deliver AI-enabled solutions and legal technology implementations that help LRC teams work more efficiently.
• Integrate SaaS platforms, cloud services and enterprise applications through APIs, and build custom tools where needed.
• Partner with InfoSec, People Ops, Engineering and IT Operations to resolve escalations and support global growth.
• Handle escalations, contribute to incident response and document your solutions.

Required profile

• 5+ years of relevant experience in IT engineering, corporate IT, business systems engineering or a similar role.
• Experience as a technical partner or primary IT engineer for business functions, ideally Legal, Risk, Compliance or another highly regulated function.
• Strong technical writing skills and ability to write clear documentation and maintain readable system diagrams.
• High trustworthiness and empathy when handling privileged and sensitive information.
• Ability to work autonomously, move quickly and deliver in high-pressure situations; willingness to join an on-call roster.
• Preferred: experience with AI-enabled tools for legal, risk or compliance teams, legal applications such as Ironclad or AuditBoard, and experience in a global, distributed organisation.

Required skills

• Identity and access management: SAML, OAuth, SSO, RBAC, ABAC, PBAC, ACLs.
• Workflow automation tools such as Workato, Okta Workflows or Zapier.
• API integration and SaaS platforms such as Jira, Confluence and Google Workspace.
• Cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP.
• Programming languages such as Python and infrastructure as code such as Terraform.
• MDM systems on macOS and Windows, such as Kandji, Jamf or Intune.
• Preferred: Okta, GCP, Aliyun, Salesforce and Slack.