Senior Product Security Engineer

Airwallex•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

As a Senior Security Engineer at Airwallex, you will be a trusted member of the Information Security team and work closely with Infrastructure, Product and Engineering teams across the business. Reporting directly to the Product Security Engineering Manager, this role will see you being a critical part of Airwallex, helping to identify, protect, detect, respond and recover the organisation from cybersecurity threats. This is a dynamic and hands-on role that requires experience in designing, developing and managing infrastructure projects, processes and standards related to the security of our networks, systems and applications.

Requirements

5+ years working in a security engineering or incident response role within a tech company
In depth experience with at least one major cloud platform
Strong knowledge of common software development tools and infrastructure, including CI/CD tooling and pipelines
Comprehensive understanding of common attacker tools and techniques, how they can be detected and prevented, and ability to respond to incidents with high depth and quality of investigation
Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical security and software concepts to a non-technical audience
A passion for solving the complex challenges of high-growth startups
Self motivation and drive to learn new skills, or dive deeper into existing skills

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science or similar
Recognised training or cybersecurity certifications (eg OSCP, GIAC, CEH)
Strong experience with Splunk and other common security monitoring tools
Past DevOps/SRE experience with Kubernetes
Experience with GCP or Alibaba Cloud (with or without certification)
Experience with Okta, GSuite, and cloud-based VPN services
Experience with Python, Java/Kotlin
Published articles, journals or blogs related to cybersecurity

Responsibilities

Partner with other teams within Airwallex to analyse new or existing applications, software, or services and help drive security improvements.
Design, develop, test, and evaluate new security controls for a rapidly growing business.
Perform incident response and hunt through log sources to identify new threats.
Design and implement custom detection strategies and workflows to support the incident response lifecycle.
Analyse and develop integration, testing, operations, and maintenance of secure systems.
Use data collected from a variety of endpoint, network and cloud tools (e.g. EDR, authentication, firewalls, network traffic logs) to analyse, identify and mitigate threats.
Design, test, implement, deploy and maintain cybersecurity infrastructure projects.
Investigate, analyse and respond to cybersecurity incidents within the Airwallex environment.
Perform assessments of systems and networks to identify deviations in configurations and policies, identify vulnerabilities and support suitable mitigation and remediation.
Conduct collection, processing, and/or geolocation of threats in order to exploit, locate, and/or track cybersecurity threats infrastructure.
Perform network navigation, tactical forensic analysis, and defensive operations.
Identify, collect, examine, and preserve digital forensic evidence using analytical and investigative techniques.