Staff Corporate Security Engineer

Airwallex • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

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 200,000 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 2,000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, 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.
As a Staff Corporate Security Engineer, you will be a critical part of defending Airwallex’s 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or similar.
• 7+ 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.
• Scripting experience such as with Python, Bash, Powershell.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level