Corporate Security Engineer

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time intelligent economy. More than 676000 businesses including McLaren Racing Qantas SHEIN and TikTok use us directly or through our platform partners to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.

We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. Were the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident but by design. A decade plus 85 licenses and a financial infrastructure spanning North America Europe the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.

Were co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore with more than 2300 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy people who move fast with good judgment dig in with real curiosity and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles to see it in full.

Airwallexs Information Security team partners closely with engineering IT and other stakeholders to protect our systems data and employees while enabling the business to move quickly. The team helps build and maintain strong security practices across the companyfrom secure product and infrastructure design to risk reduction incident response audits and complianceso security is built into how we operate not treated as a blocker.

What Youll do

As a Corporate Security Engineer you will be a critical part of defending Airwallexs enterprise systems and employees from threats such as malware phishing and unauthorised access.

This role is a highly technical opportunity to detect investigate and prevent security issues across a modern corporate environment. You will work on digital forensics incident response and tool development and deployment protecting a range of corporate IT platforms from endpoints to identity providers.

This role is based in San Francisco

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to incident response for malware phishing digital forensics.

• Design develop test and evaluate new corporate security controls for a rapidly growing business.

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

• Design and implement security alerts and workflows to support the incident response lifecycle.

• Secure corporate IT infrastructure and remediate issues across identity providers endpoints corporate networks and other platforms.

• Deploy configure and operate security tooling with a laser focus on impact.

Who you are

Were looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have but are not mandatory.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 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.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Cybersecurity or similar.

• 3 years working in a security engineering or incident response role within a tech company.

• Strong experience with Crowdstrike Splunk or other common security monitoring tools.

• 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.

• Experience with GCP Alibaba Cloud or other cloud platforms is preferred.

• Experience with Okta Google Workspace and cloud-based VPN services is preferred.

• Experience securing endpoints including with MDM tooling such as Kandji Intune

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong Engineering mindset with scripting experience such as with Python Bash Powershell.

To protect you from recruitment scams please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport) or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @ email address. Please apply only through or our official LinkedIn page.

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.

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 dont 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.

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