Staff Product 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 2,700 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 https://www.airwallex.com/en-us/operating-principles to see it in full.

HOW YOU'LL MAKE IMPACT

As a Staff Product Security Engineer, you’ll help protect Airwallex’s applications, software, services, infrastructure, and networks as the business scales. You’ll work across security engineering and incident response to strengthen our defensive capabilities and embed security into how teams build and operate.

- Build and strengthen security controls that help Airwallex scale securely across applications, software, services, infrastructure, and networks.

- Design and deliver security improvements, detection strategies, response workflows, and cybersecurity infrastructure that improve resilience and the speed and effectiveness of incident response.

- Use endpoint, network, and cloud telemetry, threat intelligence, and forensic evidence to identify, investigate, contain, and respond to cybersecurity threats, while conducting defensive operations, tactical forensics, and threat hunting.

- Partner with Infrastructure, Product, Engineering, and other teams to embed security into new and existing applications, software, and services, and drive continuous improvement across Airwallex’s security posture.

You'll work from our San Francisco office three days a week.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Essentials

- 8+ years working in a security engineering or incident response role within a technology company.

- In-depth expertise with at least one major cloud platform.

- Strong knowledge of software development tools and infrastructure, including CI/CD tooling and pipelines.

- Comprehensive understanding of common attacker tools and techniques, how to detect and prevent them, and how to respond to incidents with high depth and quality of investigation.

- Experience designing, developing, and managing infrastructure projects, processes, and standards related to the security of networks, systems, and applications.

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

- A passion for solving complex challenges in high-growth startups.

- Self-motivation and drive to learn new skills or deepen existing ones.

Preferred

- Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or a similar field.

- Recognised cybersecurity training or certifications, such as OSCP, GIAC, or CEH.

- Strong experience with Splunk and other common security monitoring tools.

- Previous DevOps or 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 and Java or Kotlin.

- Published articles, journal papers, or blogs related to cybersecurity.

YOU'LL THRIVE HERE IF

- You're comfortable owning the roadmap yourself.

- You own the outcome and you don't wait for permission to fix what's broken.

- You’re comfortable operating across time zones with a globally distributed team, including colleagues based in APAC and EMEA.

- You say what you mean. You're direct, but you lead with respect.

- You connect dots across functions and hold the big picture without losing grip on the details.

LEARN MORE ABOUT YOUR TEAM

InfoSec at Airwallex runs one of the most modern security teams in the world, protecting hundreds of thousands of customers and hundreds of billions of dollars. Our scale, funding, and industry make us a real target, so we skip the standard playbook of off-the-shelf tools and tiered SOC analysts and build almost everything ourselves, often with AI ahead of the rest of the industry. You'll go back to first principles constantly, because the off-the-shelf answer is rarely right for us, and we can build better than what already exists. If you want to build security from the ground up, against a real adversary, with people who are actually good at this, this is the team for you.

APPLICANT SAFETY POLICY: FRAUD AND THIRD-PARTY RECRUITERS

To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com http://airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com http://careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.

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.