Level Up Your Security Game at Airwallex
Airwallex is revolutionizing global finance, and we're looking for a passionate Senior Security Engineer to join our elite Information Security team. If you're driven to protect a $200B+ payments ecosystem, hunt down sophisticated fraud, and defend against insider threats, this is your playground.
We empower over 150,000 businesses worldwide with our unified payments and financial platform. This means complex challenges, cutting-edge technology, and a real-world impact on global commerce. Backed by industry giants like Visa and Salesforce Ventures, and valued at $6.2 billion, we offer the resources and ambition to tackle security at scale.
Your Mission: Fortify Our Defenses
As a Senior Security Engineer, you’ll be at the forefront of our fight against fraud and insider threats. You’ll be challenged to:
Design, develop, and deploy advanced detection rules and automated responses using behavioral analytics, anomaly detection, and custom logic.
Dive deep into user, system, and financial data to uncover complex fraud tactics and potential insider abuse.
Contribute to our evolving threat intelligence, proactively strengthening our security posture.
Mentor and elevate your peers, fostering technical expertise across the team.
What You'll Do:
Lead the creation and tuning of high-efficacy detection signatures across SIEM, EDR, DLP, and payment monitoring platforms.
Participate in incident response and digital forensics efforts.
Identify and mitigate risks associated with account misuse, privilege escalation, and social engineering.
Collaborate with fraud analysts, KYC operations, compliance, and the broader security team to enhance high-risk workflows.
Create, maintain, and operationalize detection logic for diverse insider and fraud scenarios.
Share your expertise in threat modeling and detection, empowering the engineering team.
Are You the Right Architect?
You're a passionate security engineer with a proven track record in detecting and responding to sophisticated fraud and insider threats, ideally within a Fintech or tech-driven environment. You're driven by results, relentlessly pursue root causes, and thrive on blending technical expertise with creative threat modeling. You are:
Intellectually curious about insider threat frameworks, fraud prevention, the psychology of trust abuse, and organizational risk.
Adept at navigating ambiguity, seeking out new data sources, and synthesizing signals from disparate platforms and logs.
Proactive in identifying abuse patterns, hypothesizing attacker behavior, and testing theories through technical validation.
Articulate in presenting complex scenarios to stakeholders, and skilled at collaborating across teams.
What You Need to Succeed:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
7+ years of hands-on experience in security or detection engineering, with a strong focus on insider threat or fraud risk (financial or high-growth tech preferred).
Experience building, tuning, and operating detection and monitoring solutions (SIEM, EDR, DLP, UBA, fraud detection platforms).
Expertise in designing and implementing DLP controls and correlating exfiltration techniques with insider scenarios.
Working knowledge of modern cloud-native architectures and their impact on identity, access, and monitoring.
Experience coordinating incident response and digital forensics.
Bonus Points:
Experience within Fintech, payment, or regulated environments handling substantial fraud or insider risk volumes.
Strong background in digital forensics, transaction analysis, and linking forensic evidence to potential business impact.
Understanding of regulatory requirements, compliance best practices, and incident disclosure obligations for financial institutions.
Ready to build the future of global finance security? Apply now!
Airwallex is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent.