The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will architect and implement scalable cloud infrastructure lead incident response and ensure system reliability for product initiatives.

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 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 2000 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.
Attributes We Value
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.
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.
Our SRE team is breaking new engineering ground and we have the opportunity to define innovative solutions for a number of challenges paving the way for other teams to follow in our footsteps. This team is responsible for the availability performance monitoring and capacity planning of our Global services.
What you'll do
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer you'll work closely with product teams in Spend to deliver and maintain scalable reliable cloud infrastructure in support of key product initiatives. Aligned to the roadmap you'll lead on infrastructure design and delivery for complex high-risk projects such as launching new services executing global data centre migrations and modernising data pipelines.
Responsibilities:

• Architect and implement cloud infrastructure for new services and roadmap initiatives.
• Embed with development teams to drive reliability performance and operational readiness.
• Lead incident response observability and automation across critical systems.
• Own team-level SLOs runbooks and DevOps performance metrics.
• Collaborate with central DevOps and security teams to ensure compliance and resilience.

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:

• 6+ years in an SRE DevOps or infrastructure-focused engineering role.
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related field.
• Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS/GCP) Kubernetes observability and incident response.
• Able to lead SRE strategy for large-scale cross-functional projects.
• Strong experience supporting production systems with high availability and compliance requirements.
• Proven ability to work closely with developers and guide reliability best practices.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in a fintech or similarly regulated industry.
• Familiarity with data streaming analytics pipelines or financial data systems.

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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.
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