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Senior Software Engineer - Database

Airwallex· Engineering
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Hybrid (US - Seattle)$140k - $240kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer on the Database SRE team focused on building observability platforms, AI-driven tooling, and self-service workflows for PostgreSQL and Redis within Airwallex’s database infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Build a unified database observability platform that provides real-time visibility into availability, security posture, reliability metrics, and latency across database instances.
  • Design secure MCP (Model Context Protocol) interfaces that enable AI agents to query and interact with production databases while maintaining strict access controls.
  • Develop an agentic AI DBA to automate performance tuning, capacity planning, schema review, incident triage, and remediation.
  • Create self-service workflows that allow product engineering teams to provision, configure, scale, and manage PostgreSQL and Redis instances with built-in security, compliance, and reliability guardrails.
  • Establish database reliability practices across connection pooling, query optimization, backup and recovery, failover, and change management, and participate in on-call rotations for database incidents.
  • Partner with product engineers to diagnose performance issues, review schema designs, and improve data modelling and access patterns.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong proficiency in a backend language such as Python, Go, Java, or Kotlin.
  • Deep experience with PostgreSQL, including performance tuning, query optimization, replication, backup and recovery, schema design, and operational best practices.
  • Experience with Redis, including data modelling, clustering, persistence strategies, and operational management.
  • Hands-on experience with GCP or an equivalent cloud provider, infrastructure as code such as Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker.
  • A track record of building automation, tooling, or platforms that replace manual operational work and make database operations scalable.
  • Strong system design skills, with the ability to architect reliable and scalable infrastructure services.

Skills

Required:Backend programmingPostgreSQLRedisGCP / cloudTerraformKubernetes
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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