Senior Corporate Security Engineer: Defend the Future of Global Finance!
Ready to stand at the forefront of cybersecurity for one of the world's fastest-growing fintech innovators? At Airwallex, we're not just building a unified payments and financial platform for global businesses – we're reimagining how money moves. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by leading investors like T. Rowe Price, Visa, and Sequoia, we empower over 200,000 businesses worldwide, including giants like Brex and SHEIN. Now, we need your expertise to fortify our defenses and protect our enterprise systems and employees from evolving threats.
About Airwallex: Pioneers in Global Finance
Airwallex is revolutionizing global finance with our unique blend of proprietary infrastructure and software. From business accounts and payments to spend management and treasury, we offer fully integrated solutions that empower businesses on a global scale. Proudly founded in Melbourne, our diverse team of over 2,000 innovators spans 26 offices worldwide. Join us to do the most ambitious work of your career as we build the global financial platform of tomorrow.
Your Mission: Safeguarding Our Enterprise
As a Senior Corporate Security Engineer, you will be a critical guardian of Airwallex’s resilience. This highly technical role thrusts you into the core of detecting, investigating, and preventing sophisticated security issues across our modern corporate environment. You'll operate across digital forensics, incident response, and the development and deployment of cutting-edge security tools, protecting everything from our endpoints to our identity providers.
What You'll Be Building & Doing: Lead end-to-end incident response, from forensic analysis to remediation, for critical threats like malware, sophisticated phishing attacks, and unauthorized access attempts. What You'll Bring to the Team: A profound passion for tackling the complex security challenges inherent in high-growth technology startups. Technical Prowess: Deep expertise in EDR/XDR platforms (e.g., Crowdstrike) and SIEM solutions (e.g., Splunk) for advanced threat detection and analysis. Collaboration & Communication: Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical security and software concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. Why Airwallex? Our Values & Your Growth Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters Equal Opportunity
Architect, develop, and rigorously test cutting-edge corporate security controls designed for scalability and impact in a hyper-growth environment.
Proactively hunt for emerging threats across diverse log sources and corporate systems, translating findings into actionable intelligence and defensive strategies.
Design and implement robust security alerts and workflows to streamline and enhance our incident response lifecycle.
Strengthen and remediate security vulnerabilities across our corporate IT infrastructure, including identity providers, endpoints, corporate networks, and other critical platforms.
Deploy, configure, and operate a suite of advanced security tooling with a laser focus on maximizing impact and efficiency.
Your Profile:
Self-motivation and a relentless drive to continuously learn new skills and deepen existing expertise.
A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field.
Minimum of 5+ years of hands-on experience in a security engineering or incident response role within a dynamic tech company.
Mastery of common attacker tools and techniques (TTPs), with a proven ability to design effective detection/prevention mechanisms and execute high-fidelity incident investigations.
Hands-on experience securing major cloud platforms (GCP, Alibaba Cloud, or equivalent) is highly preferred.
Proficiency with identity management solutions (Okta), collaboration suites (Google Workspace), and cloud-based VPN services is preferred.
Extensive experience securing macOS, Windows, and Linux endpoints, including expertise with MDM solutions like Kandji, Intune, or similar.
Strong scripting capabilities (Python, Bash, PowerShell) to automate security tasks and build custom tools.
We're building an environment for successful builders with founder-like energy who crave real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You'll bring sharp thinking and strong expertise, motivated by our mission and operating principles. We move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed with rigor. Here, you'll collaborate with exceptional teammates, turn zero-to-one ideas into real products, and "get stuff done" end-to-end. We embrace AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Grow your career as you tackle complex, high-visibility challenges at the cutting edge of global finance.
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Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.