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Staff Software Engineer, Productivity

Airwallex· Engineering
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Hybrid (US - Seattle)$180k - $275kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Lead the technical strategy and delivery of productivity platforms to improve Airwallex’s developer experience, focusing on CI/CD, tooling, cloud infrastructure, observability, messaging, and AI-powered developer productivity.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the technical strategy and delivery of developer productivity platforms that help Airwallex’s global engineering organization move faster, ship higher-quality software, and operate more efficiently.
  • Identify productivity bottlenecks with feature teams, then design and build scalable solutions across developer tooling, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, observability, messaging, and workflow automation.
  • Define and drive an AI-powered developer productivity strategy, evaluating and deploying solutions such as AI-assisted code review, automated test generation, intelligent build optimization, and agent-based root-cause analysis.
  • Set the technical bar across the Infrastructure & Productivity domain by shaping architecture, reviewing RFCs, establishing engineering practices, mentoring engineers, and balancing performance, scalability, maintainability, and cost.
  • Partner with engineers, SREs, and stakeholders across Airwallex to measure and improve developer experience through signals such as build times, deployment frequency, deployment reliability, and developer satisfaction.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, or platform infrastructure at scale.
  • Strong proficiency in a backend programming language such as Python, Java, Go, Kotlin, Rust, or Node.js, along with experience using the relevant frameworks.
  • Experience designing and developing large-scale distributed systems with high concurrency, high load, and high availability requirements.
  • Strong system design skills and experience defining technical strategy for a team or domain, including architectural decisions that balance performance, scalability, maintainability, and cost.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud services such as AWS, GCP, or Aliyun, and infrastructure management tools such as Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker.
  • Experience providing technical leadership across teams, making architectural decisions, reviewing designs or RFCs, mentoring engineers, and raising engineering quality standards.
  • Experience with server technologies and the ability to optimise service response and data queries while addressing high-concurrency and high-availability challenges.
  • Experience partnering with engineering teams and stakeholders to understand workflows, identify productivity needs, and deliver reliable platform solutions.

Skills

Required:CI/CD toolingBackend developmentDistributed systemsCloud & infrastructure

Benefits

  • Airwallex promotes fair compensation practices.
  • US-based benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, disability and life insurance, and well-being benefits.
  • At least statutory minimum paid annual leave and public holidays; many locations offer additional vacation days.
  • US-based employees receive 20 paid days of vacation and 12 paid days of company holidays per year.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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