Staff Product Security Engineer

About the role

A Staff Product Security Engineer at Airwallex will be a trusted member of the Information Security team and work closely with Infrastructure, Product, and Engineering teams across the business.

This role reports directly to the Product Security Engineering Manager and is based in San Francisco, Sydney, or Melbourne.

Responsibilities

• Create and build security controls that strengthen Airwallex’s ability to scale securely.
• Design and deliver security improvements across applications, software, and services.
• Develop and operationalise detection strategies and response workflows that improve the speed and effectiveness of incident response.
• Build and enhance secure systems through strong integration, sing, operations, and maintenance practices.
• Leverage and analyse endpoint, network, and cloud telemetry to identify, investigate, and mitigate threats.
• Design, implement, and maintain cybersecurity infrastructure that improves resilience across the Airwallex environment.
• Investigate, contain, and respond to cybersecurity incidents to reduce risk and strengthen defensive capability.
• Assess and improve system and network security by identifying vulnerabilities, configuration issues, and remediation opportunities.
• Collect and analyse threat intelligence and forensic evidence to better understand, track, and disrupt threats.
• Conduct and support defensive operations, tactical forensics, and threat hunting to strengthen security outcomes.
• Partner with teams across Airwallex to embed security into new and existing applications, software, and services and drive continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 8+ years working in a security engineering or incident response role within a tech company
• In-depth expertise with at least one major cloud platform
• 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

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science or similar
• Recognised training or cybersecurity certifications (e.g. OSCP, GIAC, CEH)
• Strong experience with Splunk and other common security monitoring tools
• Past DevOps/SRE experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with GCP or Alibaba Cloud (with or without certification)
• Experience with Okta, GSuite, and cloud-based VPN services
• Experience with Python, Java/Kotlin
• Published articles, journals or blogs related to cybersecurity