About the role
About Airwallex Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 200,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale. Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us. Attributes We Value We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles . You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor. You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next. 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. This is a dynamic and hands-on role that requires experience in designing, developing and managing infrastructure projects, processes and standards related to the security of our networks, systems and applications. What you’ll be doing 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