Senior Network Engineer San Francisco

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 200000 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 2200 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.

We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact accelerated learning and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment dig deep with curiosity and make decisions from first principles balancing speed and rigor.

You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here you’ll tackle complex high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you let’s build what’s next.

Corporate IT drives our IT support IT engineering and business engineering functions at Airwallex. IT Engineering is the core team that drives our technology experiences from communications and video conferencing to managing our computers applications identity and access management. Network Operations builds our corporate network supports our international access for our Airwallex staff all over the globe and ensures a reliable and stable experience for our remote and in-office needs. We design build and run the systems and services our Airwallex team uses to build our product serve our customers and run our business. We partner with every team in the business from Finance to Engineering People Operations and Support and solve problems and create solutions for the many challenges our teams face.

As a Senior / Staff Network Engineer you will define the global technical strategy architecture and roadmap for Airwallex’s enterprise and cloud network infrastructure. You will design and deploy highly secure multi-region hybrid network patterns that bridge physical offices data centers and multi-cloud environments (AWS/Alibaba Cloud) at massive scale. Acting as a principal technical leader you will champion infrastructure-as-code automation (Terraform Ansible) optimize routing protocols for low-latency financial systems and mentor engineers across our global infrastructure team.

This role is based in Singapore Sydney Melbourne or San Francisco.

• Build the foundations of our new corporate network and help design the team structure and size for the future

• Design and build corporate network infrastructure for new Airwallex offices as we expand globally and upgrade our existing portfolio

• Design implement and maintain highly available and secure corporate network infrastructure (LAN WAN Wireless VPN) across multiple global offices and regions.

• Configure on-prem gateway/router/networking hardware globally including mixed vendors in some locations

• Manage global connectivity over international leased lines and domestic internet connections

• Lead the configuration and troubleshooting of complex network devices including routers switches firewalls load balancers and wireless access points.

• Own CorpNet and act as a first-responder or escalation point for complex network issues running an incident through to completion and after-action reports.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g. CorpSec ProdSec Engineering Product IT Engineering Workplace etc.) to integrate network solutions and support business initiatives.

• Work with IT Engineering IT Support on troubleshooting network issues on endpoints including basic IT operations support building a core networking understanding among the team

• Develop and maintain comprehensive network documentation including diagrams configurations and operational procedures.

• Evaluate and recommend new networking technologies and solutions to stay ahead of our business growth

• Mentor develop and coach other network engineers and staff sharing knowledge and fostering skill development within the team – manage underperformers and attract talent

• Participate in a global on-call rotation providing primary response for corp networking issues in a follow-the-sun model.

• Flexible scheduling (as needed) to support the business and team initiatives -- i.e. participate in network upgrades after-hours or weekend implementation work to minimise business disruption.

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

• Senior-level experience with designing implementing and maintaining Juniper and Palo Alto Networks vendor solutions

• Demonstrated experience in a multi/mixed networking vendor environment (Juniper Palo Alto Cisco Aruba etc.) in a global company

• Experience with networking solutions for mainland China and international connectivity

• Strong fundamental understanding of wifi technology and endpoint engineering – hardware knowledge a plus (Juniper Mist Cisco Meraki Aruba etc.)

• Expert understanding of command-line configuration of networking hardware and vendors (JunOS IOS etc.)

• Strong knowledge of Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect Prisma/Prisma Cloud and core networking fundamentals

• Managed or lead a team of network engineers – ideally at a startup from early days to a large corporate footprint you’ve seen the growth happen and know the problems that come with it

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology Computer Science or a related field 5+ years of relevant experience in a similar role.

• Strong demonstrated written and verbal English communication skills

• Understanding of common identity standards including SAML OAuth SSO etc.

• Experience using and understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS GCP etc.)

• Understanding of RBAC ABAC PBAC ACLs and common access management principles in security and corporate IT environments

• Experience working in all SaaS-based systems and applications

• Strong understanding of MDM systems (macOS windows; kandji JAMF intune etc.)

• Ability to move fast and urgently making correct decisions and assumptions – sometimes without all the information

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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.

What We Do

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 200000+ 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 2200 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.

Why Work With Us

Airwallex was founded by people told their idea was unreasonable and we've hired that way ever since. We move fast think globally and give you ownership from day one. If you want to pioneer global finance at scale alongside the ambitious let's talk.

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