Security Engineer, Insider Risk

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Responsibilities Lead the creation and tuning of high-efficacy detection signatures and analytics across SIEM, EDR, DLP, and payment monitoring platforms, focusing on both technical threats and nuanced abuse scenarios. Support relevant incident response and digital forensics efforts. Identify and mitigate the risk of issues such as account misuse, privilege escalation, and social engineering within the organization. Collaborate with fraud analysts, KYC operations, compliance, and the broader security team to improve high-risk workflows (onboarding, KYC,authentication, funds movement). Create, maintain, and operationalize detection logic for insider and fraud scenarios. Share domain best practices in threat modeling and detection with the engineering team, actively supporting others’ development in fraud and insider risk domains.

Who you are You have a proven passion for detecting and responding to sophisticated fraud and insider threats in a Fintech or technology-driven environment. You are outcome-driven, relentless in your pursuit of root causes, and thrive when blending technical acumen with creative threat modeling. You are: Intellectually curious, especially about insider threat frameworks, fraud prevention, psychology of trust abuse, and organizational risk. Adept at navigating ambiguity, seeking out new data sources, and synthesizing signals across disparate platforms and logs. Proactive in identifying abuse patterns, hypothesizing how attackers (internal and external) might operate within a complex ecosystem, and testing theories through technical proof. Articulate when presenting complex scenarios to stakeholders, and skilled at collaborating across business, security, compliance, and engineering functions. Minimum

Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or relevant field. 3+ years of hands-on experience in security engineering or detection engineering, with a strong focus on insider threat or fraud risk (ideally in financial or high-growth technology settings). Direct experience building, tuning, and operating detection and monitoring solutions (e.g. SIEM, EDR, DLP, user behavior analytics, and fraud detection platforms). Expertise designing and implementing DLP controls and correlating exfiltration techniques with insider scenarios. Working knowledge of modern cloud-native architectures and how they impact identity, access, and monitoring. Experience with coordinating incident response and digital forensics. Preferred

Qualifications Experience within Fintech, payment, or regulated environments handling substantial fraud or insider risk volumes. Strong background in digital forensics, transaction analysis, and linking forensic evidence to potential business impact. Understanding of regulatory

requirements, compliance best practices, and incident disclosure obligations for financial institutions. 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 email address. Please apply only through 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,

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