Staff Software Engineer, AI Tooling

About the role

Airwallex, the AI-native financial operating system for global commerce, is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for its AI tooling team in San Francisco. You will lead the development of AI tools and applications used by employees, turning ideas into working apps, dashboards, workflow tools and internal automation. The team works three days a week from the San Francisco office.

Key responsibilities

• Lead AI tools and applications from inception through implementation, helping employees turn ideas into useful internal products.
• Build automation and ad hoc tooling that supports threat hunting, incident response, remediation and security scanning.
• Build, monitor and maintain the infrastructure behind these tools, including Kubernetes clusters, serverless workloads, ETL pipelines and large-scale log pipelines.
• Partner with engineering teams to identify automation opportunities and develop services that improve security outcomes, such as patching automation and gateways that reduce risk.
• Mentor engineers and help grow a strong 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 with production codebases and owning projects autonomously, delivering high-quality work on time.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Preferred: experience in a high-growth technology company, hands-on experience with AI to build applications, and experience maintaining Linux operating systems.

Required skills

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