Senior Application Security Engineer

**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.

**Your role**

As a Senior Application Security Engineer, you will sit within our Security team and work closely with all product and engineering teams across the business.

From actively identifying vulnerabilities, to partnering with engineers to help prevent vulnerabilities ever existing, your role requires you to get deep into the code base while interacting with and educating the broader business on security best practices.

**What you'll be doing**
- Review the Airwallex platform and products' code to identify security issues and help engineers find more secure solutions.
- Proactively work with our product and engineering teams to assess risk and provide policy guidance on secure code review and best practices.
- Be the advocate for security architecture best practices across the Product and Engineering organisation, including secure configuration and deployment of new infrastructure and services.
- Educate the engineering and product teams on what secure code and design looks like and why it is important.
- Set standards for identity and access management across the platform.
- Review our use of cloud providers, identify risk areas, and help mitigate them.

**What you'll bring**
- A passion for solving the complex challenges of high-growth startups.
- Experience with cloud platforms (we use GCP)
- Self motivation and drive to learn new skills, or dive deeper into existing skills.
- In depth understanding of common attacker tools and techniques, and how they are can be exploited by insecure development practices.
- Experience with vulnerability assessment tools.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical security and software concepts to a non-technical audience.
- Experience with Kotlin, Typescript, NodeJS, and Kubernetes is a plus.
- Any additional training, security certifications, or history of responsible disclosure is a big plus, such as GIAC certifications, OSCP or your HackerOne profile or other bug bounty programs.
- 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.