Description
Compensation
$160K – $250K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
Airwallex promotes fair compensation practices in accordance with applicable national, federal, state, and local law.
The actual compensation offered to a candidate will be dependent upon multiple factors, including but not limited to relevant experience, skills and other qualifications, geographic location as noted, internal equity, and other external market factors.
Benefits vary by country and employment type in accordance with local statutory requirements. All employees receive at least the statutory minimum for paid annual leave and public holidays, with many of our locations offering additional company-provided vacation days.
For example, for US-based employees, they are eligible to participate in 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.
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.
About the team
Airwallex’s Information Security team partners closely with engineering, IT, and other stakeholders to protect our systems, data, and employees while enabling the business to move quickly. The team helps build and maintain strong security practices across the company,from secure product and infrastructure design to risk reduction, incident response, audits, and compliance,so security is built into how we operate, not treated as a blocker.
Your role
As a Senior Security Engineer at Airwallex, you will be a trusted member of the Information Security team and work closely with Infrastructure, Product and Engineering teams across the business.
Reporting directly to the Product Security Engineering Manager, this role will see you being a critical part of Airwallex, helping to identify, protect, detect, respond and recover the organisation from cybersecurity threats.
Responsibilities
- Partner with other teams within Airwallex to analyse new or existing applications, software, or services and help drive security improvements.
- Design, develop, test, and evaluate new security controls for a rapidly growing business.
- Perform incident response and hunt through log sources to identify new threats.
- Design and implement custom detection strategies and workflows to support the incident response lifecycle.
- Analyse and develop integration, testing, operations, and maintenance of secure systems.
- Use data collected from a variety of endpoint, network and cloud tools (e.g. EDR, authentication, firewalls, network traffic logs) to analyse, identify and mitigate threats.
- Design, test, implement, deploy and maintain cybersecurity infrastructure projects.
- Investigate, analyse and respond to cybersecurity incidents within the Airwallex environment.
- Perform assessments of systems and networks to identify deviations in configurations and policies, identify vulnerabilities and support suitable mitigation and remediation.
- Conduct collection, processing, and/or geolocation of threats in order to exploit, locate, and/or track cybersecurity threats infrastructure.
- Perform network navigation, tactical forensic analysis, and defensive operations.
- Identify, collect, examine, and preserve digital forensic evidence using analytical and investigative techniques.
Minimum Qualifications (must-have)
- 5+ years working in a security engineering or incident response role within a tech company
- In depth experience with at least one major cloud platform
- Strong knowledge of common software development tools and infrastructure, including CI/CD tooling and pipelines
- Comprehensive understanding of common attacker tools and techniques, how they can be detected and prevented, and ability to respond to incidents with high depth and quality of investigation
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical security and software concepts to a non-technical audience
- A passion for solving the complex challenges of high-growth startups
- Self motivation and drive to learn new skills, or dive deeper into existing skills
Highly Desired
- Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science or similar
- Recognised training or cybersecurity certifications (eg OSCP, GIAC, CEH)
- Strong experience with Splunk and other common security monitoring tools
- Past DevOps/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, Java/Kotlin
- Published articles, journals or blogs related to cybersecurity