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From the employer's careers site First seen 28 Oct 2026 · Still live on 31 Oct 2026

Staff Software Engineer, AI Tooling

Airwallex San Francisco, US Hybrid staff full-time

Salary

$200K – $280K per year

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Description

Compensation

Airwallex offers a salary range of $200K – $280K, along with equity and bonus opportunities.

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses use us to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products.

About the team

You’d be joining the team building Airwallex’s AI tooling platform, which helps employees turn ideas into working apps, dashboards, and workflow tools faster, with a strong focus on platform engineering, integrations, security, and scale.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead the development of AI tools and applications, from inception to implementation.
  • Support incident response efforts by building ad-hoc tools for threat hunting, remediation, and scanners.
  • Build, monitor, and maintain underlying infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters, serverless workloads, and ETL pipelines.
  • Collaborate with engineers to identify opportunities for automation and tooling development.
  • Partner with product engineering teams to drive security outcomes, such as automation for patching and development of gateways.
  • Mentor and help grow other Software Engineers in the team.

Who you are

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
  • 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.
  • Experience with production code bases.
  • Experience with at least one scripting language (e.g., Python) and one systems programming language (e.g., Golang, C/C++).
  • Experience with modern cloud infrastructure, including data pipelines, serverless workloads, and Kubernetes.
  • Proven experience working autonomously on projects – delivering them to a high quality and on time.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to dive deep to find the best solution to a problem.
  • Obsessive curiosity and a willingness to ask questions.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience working in a high-growth tech company.
  • Hands-on experience with AI – specifically leveraging AI to build applications.
  • Experience maintaining Linux operating systems.

Benefits

For US-based employees, benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, short-term and long-term disability, basic life insurance, and well-being benefits. US-based employees also receive 20 paid days of vacation and 12 paid days of company holidays in a calendar year.

Skills

Required

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