Senior Software Engineer, AI Tooling

About the role

Airwallex, the AI-native financial operating system for global commerce, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, AI Tooling, to work from its San Francisco office three days a week. You will build AI tools and applications used by Airwallex employees, taking projects from inception through implementation, and work across platform engineering, security, automation and infrastructure.

Key responsibilities

• 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 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 profile

• 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
• Track record of working autonomously and delivering high-quality work on time
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Preferred: experience in a high-growth technology company, hands-on experience using AI to build applications, and experience maintaining Linux systems

Required skills

• At least one scripting language, such as Python
• At least one systems programming language, such as Go or C/C++
• Modern cloud infrastructure, including data pipelines, serverless workloads and Kubernetes