Staff Software Engineer, Network

About AirwallexAirwallex 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 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$6.2 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Visa, Airtree, Blackbird, Sequoia, DST Global, Greenoaks, Salesforce Ventures, Lone Pine, and Square Peg, 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 RoleWe are looking for skilled Staff Software Engineer to help shape and evolve Airwallex’s edge infrastructure—covering API gateway, CDN, DNS, global accelerators, and perimeter security systems. This is a high-impact engineering role focused on designing and delivering critical components of our global edge platform.As a Senior Engineer, you’ll lead scoped initiatives, drive system-level improvements, and partner with platform, product, and InfoSec teams to enhance performance, resilience, and security. You’ll operate at the intersection of infrastructure and security, ensuring traffic entering Airwallex is fast, secure, and governed by clear engineering standards.In this role, you will: Own and Deliver Key Edge SystemsLead design and implementation of edge networking components such as:API Gateways (routing, throttling, transformation)CDN caching and invalidation policiesDNS zone management and global resolution setupPartner with infra and SRE teams to ensure scalability, availability, and maintainability Implement and Improve Border SecurityDevelop and maintain rate limiting, WAF, firewall, and bot mitigation policiesWork with Infosec to roll out detection and protection rules across providers (Cloudflare, AWS WAF, Tencent GAAP, etc.)Instrument and measure edge protections for reliability and effectiveness Contribute to API Exposure and GovernanceHelp develop internal tooling for API route registration and reviewImplement policy checks for route naming, versioning, authentication, and traffic tieringSupport onboarding of teams to edge policies and route lifecycle processes Improve Performance and Resilience at ScaleTune configurations for routing, caching, failover, and latency optimizationAnalyze traffic patterns and propose system improvements for core services (e.g., payments, onboarding)Contribute to multi-region and multi-provider edge deploymentsWhat We’re Looking ForTechnical SkillsStrong experience in one or more areas of edge networking:API gateways (e.g. Envoy, NGINX/OpenResty, Kong, Apisix)CDN management and performance tuningDNS routing and global traffic optimizationHands-on with cloud networking services (AWS, GCP, Cloudflare, etc.)Familiar with WAF, firewall rules, rate limiting, and traffic classificationWorking knowledge of service mesh, Kubernetes ingress controllers, and infra-as-code (Terraform, Helm, etc.)Engineering and Execution SkillsAble to lead scoped technical initiatives and deliver working systemsStrong debugging, systems thinking, and code review capabilitiesExperience working across teams to linkalign on requirements and rollout plansComfortable writing design documents and collaborating with infra and security peersBonusExperience working on regulated or high-security environmentsExposure to multi-cloud edge and global failover strategiesMandarin fluency and experience in distributed/global engineering teamsEqual opportunityAirwallex 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.

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