Product Security Engineer II

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 150,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 1,700 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across more than 37 locations around the globe. Valued at US$5.6 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Sequoia, Lone Pine, Greenoaks, DST Global, Salesforce Ventures and Mastercard, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

About the team

The Airwallex Information Security Team is a high calibre and highly proactive team that works across our infrastructure, app security, Corporate IT and broader engineering functions.

What you’ll do

As a Product Security Engineer here at Airwallex, you will be a trusted member of the Information Security team and work closely with IT, product and engineering teams across the business.

Reporting directly to the Security Engineering Lead, this role will see you being a critical part of Airwallex, helping to identify, protect, detect, respond and recover the organisation from cybersecurity threats.

This is a dynamic and hands-on role that requires experience in designing, developing and managing infrastructure projects, processes and standards related to the security of our networks, systems and applications.

This role will be based in Shanghai.

Responsibilities:

1. Partner with other teams within Airwallex to analyse new or existing applications, software, or services and help drive security improvements.

2. Design, develop, test, and evaluate new security controls for a rapidly growing business.

3. Perform incident response and hunt through log sources to identify new threats.

4. Design and implement custom detection strategies and workflows to support the incident response lifecycle.

5. Analyse and develop integration, testing, operations, and maintenance of secure systems.

6. Use data collected from a variety of endpoint, network and cloud tools (e.g. EDR, authentication, firewalls, network traffic logs) to analyse, identify and mitigate threats.

7. Design, test, implement, deploy and maintain cybersecurity infrastructure projects.

8. Investigate, analyse and respond to cybersecurity incidents within the Airwallex environment.

9. Perform assessments of systems and networks to identify deviations in configurations and policies, identify vulnerabilities and support suitable mitigation and remediation.

10. Conduct collection, processing, and/or geolocation of threats in order to exploit, locate, and/or track cybersecurity threats infrastructure.

11. Perform network navigation, tactical forensic analysis, and defensive operations.

12. Identify, collect, examine, and preserve digital forensic evidence using analytical and investigative techniques.

Who you are

1. You have a passion for solving the complex challenges within a high-growth start-up.

2. You are self-motivated, a self starter, and able to learn new skills and dive deeper into existing skills.

Minimum qualifications:

1. A passion for solving the complex challenges of high-growth startups.

2. Self motivation and drive to learn new skills, or dive deeper into existing skills.

3. Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science or similar.

4. Recognised training or cybersecurity certifications (eg OSCP, GIAC, CEH).

5. 3-4 years working in a security engineering or incident response role within a tech company.

6. Strong experience with Crowdstrike EDR, Splunk and other common security monitoring tools.

7. In depth 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.

8. Experience with GCP, Alibaba Cloud, and other cloud platforms is preferred.

9. Experience with Okta, GSuite, and cloud-based VPN services is preferred.

10. Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical security and software concepts to a non-technical audience.

11. Experience with Python, Java/Kotlin, and/or Kubernetes.

12. Strong knowledge of common software development tools and infrastructure, including CI/CD tooling and pipelines.

13. Published articles, journals or blogs related to cybersecurity.

Equal opportunity

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.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters.  Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s).  Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.