Senior Software Engineer, Infra (Cloud Security Platform)

Job Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer, Infra (Cloud Security Platform) at Airwallex, you will be part of the Cloud Platform Engineering team. This team is responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure systems that provide visibility and control over the company's cloud resources.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement the infrastructure security roadmap to proactively address security concerns.
• Establish and enforce security governance across infrastructure by translating security policies into practical technical controls and guardrails.
• Identify abnormal infrastructure and security issues early, investigate root causes, and share learnings through clear internal documentation and technical write-ups.
• Modernise legacy infrastructure and reduce security and operational risks.
• Collaborate with engineering and security stakeholders to improve the security posture of Airwallex's infrastructure.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering experience with a focus on security and the ability to build secure, maintainable infrastructure solutions.
• Experience in responding to infrastructure security issues and translating lessons learned into preventative controls.
• Experience designing and implementing security governance, policy enforcement, or infrastructure security controls.
• Ability to own work end-to-end, from identifying problems to implementation, rollout, and ongoing improvement.
• Strong communication skills, including documenting security issues and working effectively with InfoSec and engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud infrastructure and cloud security, particularly GCP or AWS.
• Experience with IAM, RBAC, or ABAC, least-privilege access, secrets management, or zero-trust security principles.
• Experience building infrastructure tooling, security automation, policy-as-code, or preventative controls.
• Experience with Kubernetes, CI/CD security, or infrastructure observability.

What You'll Thrive Here If

• You're comfortable owning the roadmap and making decisions independently.
• You prioritize quality and accountability.
• You're comfortable with ambiguity and can work with minimal supervision.
• You default to action and are proactive in solving problems.