← All roles

Senior Product Security Engineer

Airwallex· Engineering
Apply on company site
Hybrid (US - San Francisco), Hybrid (AU - Sydney)$160k - $250kFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Senior Security Engineer role within Airwallex's Information Security team, partnering with Infrastructure, Product and Engineering to design, implement and operate security controls, detect and respond to threats, and drive security improvements across products and infrastructure in a hybrid, US/Sydney-based setup.

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.

Qualifications

  • 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

Skills

Required:Security engineeringCloud platform experienceCI/CD toolingIncident responseCommunication

Benefits

  • 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 US-based employees, medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, short-term and long-term disability, basic life insurance, and well-being benefits. 20 paid days of vacation and 12 paid days of company holidays in a calendar year.
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
Airwallex logo

About Airwallex

Trusted Global Payments & Financial Platform

Grow your business faster with Airwallex - global business accounts, high speed transfers, multi-currency cards, online payments, embedded finance, and more.

PaymentsBankingFinancialGlobal
Company profileWebsite

More open roles at Airwallex