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 100,000 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 1,500 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech located across more than 20 offices across 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 Engineering team at Airwallex is a diverse group of innovators, builders, and problem solvers, driven by a mission to empower businesses to operate anywhere, anytime. We thrive in a collaborative and fast-paced environment, where we’re constantly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in the financial technology space. As a team, we value technical craftsmanship, continuous learning, and a strong sense of ownership, working together to build scalable, reliable, and secure products that empower businesses of all sizes to grow without borders.

What you’ll do

The Airwallex Cloud Infra team is a group of highly skilled, innovative, and collaborative professionals dedicated to creating and maintaining a cutting-edge, secure, and scalable infrastructure that supports our cross-border payment solutions. The team brings together experts in Kubernetes, service mesh, cloud platforms, and middlewares, all working seamlessly to ensure the highest levels of performance, reliability, and security. Committed to constant improvement, the Cloud Infra team is pivotal to Airwallex’s mission to empower businesses worldwide by providing a robust and efficient financial technology platform.

This role is based in Singapore.

Responsibilities:

• Craft new cloud infrastructures services, tools and platforms based upon Kubernetes, Terraform and similar technologies in a fully automated manner (programmatic approach), ensuring rapid, secure, and efficient provisioning and management of cloud infrastructure
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• Collaborate closely with fellow team members and stakeholders across the organization to identify areas for improvement, propose innovative solutions, and contribute to the continuous evolution of our infrastructure and technology stack.

• Monitor and maintain the overall health, performance, and security of our infrastructure, proactively identifying and resolving potential issues and vulnerabilities before they impact our customers.

• Participate in on-call rotations, working together to provide prompt and efficient resolution of issues or incidents that may arise, maintaining the highest levels of availability, performance, and customer satisfaction on our infrastructure.

• Share your knowledge and expertise with other team members, providing mentorship, guidance to help them develop their skills and further enhance the capabilities of the Cloud Infra team.

• Stay current with the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in Al, Kubernetes, OAM (Open Application Model), Cloud Platforms, and related areas, proactively integrating new ideas and tools to ensure Airwallex remains at the forefront of financial technology.

Who you are

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

Minimum qualifications:

• Over 3 years of experience in high-performance, distributed systems.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or related fields.

• Strong expertise in working on building Infrastructure as Code (laC).

• In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes, K8S Operator development, and containerization technologies.

• Expertise in Golang, Python or other programming languages.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to identify and resolve potential issues and vulnerabilities in a proactive manner.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams and share knowledge and expertise with others.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in writing custom kubernetes operators.

• Experience with Istio service mesh.

• Experience with GitOps, such as ArgoCD.

• Relevant certifications in Kubernetes, or cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS or Azure).

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.