Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Spend

Site Reliability Engineer · Senior · Full Time

AU - MelbourneAUD 180k – 250k3mo ago
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Role

What you'll do.

Airwallex is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join their Spend team, focusing on architecting and maintaining scalable cloud infrastructure for critical financial technology services. The ideal candidate will drive reliability, performance, and operational excellence across global cloud platforms, working closely with development teams to ensure robust and secure system deployments.

Responsibilities

  • Cloud Infrastructure Architecture: Design and implement cloud infrastructure for new services and strategic roadmap initiatives across global platforms
  • Cross-Team Collaboration: Embed with development teams to drive reliability, performance, and operational readiness of critical systems
  • Incident Management: Lead comprehensive incident response, observability, and automation strategies across mission-critical infrastructure
  • Performance Optimization: Own team-level Service Level Objectives (SLOs), develop comprehensive runbooks, and track DevOps performance metrics
  • Compliance and Security: Collaborate with central DevOps and security teams to ensure robust system compliance and resilience

Qualifications

What we look for.

Technical

  • Cloud Platforms

    Advanced expertise in AWS and/or GCP cloud infrastructure

  • Containerization

    Proficient in Kubernetes and container orchestration technologies

  • Observability

    Strong skills in monitoring, logging, and system observability tools

Education

  • Computer Science Degree

    Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field

Experience

  • SRE/DevOps Experience

    Minimum 6+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused engineering roles

  • Production System Management

    Extensive experience supporting high-availability production systems with strict compliance requirements

Skills

Required

  • Cloud Infrastructure

    Advanced cloud platform configuration and management

  • Incident Response

    Proven ability to lead and manage complex system incidents

  • DevOps Practices

    Strong understanding of modern DevOps methodologies and best practices

Preferred

  • Fintech Experience

    Nice to have

    Previous work in financial technology or regulated industry environments

  • Data Systems

    Nice to have

    Familiarity with data streaming, analytics pipelines, and financial data system architectures

Tech stack

Languages

PythonGo

Frameworks

TerraformAnsible

Databases

PrometheusElasticSearch

Tools

KubernetesDockerGitHub Actions

Other

CI/CD Pipelines

Compensation

Pay and benefits.

Base·AUD 180,000 – 250,000

Equity·Stock options

Benefits

  • Health Insurance

    Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

  • Stock Options

    Equity compensation in a high-growth fintech company

  • Professional Development

    Annual learning and conference budget, continuous skills enhancement

  • Flexible Work Arrangement

    Hybrid work model with potential remote work options

  • Global Career Opportunities

    Potential for international mobility within Airwallex's 26 global offices

Process

Interview steps.

  1. 01

    Initial Screening

    Phone or video call with recruiting team to discuss background and role fit

  2. 02

    Technical Assessment

    Comprehensive technical evaluation of SRE and cloud infrastructure skills

  3. 03

    Hiring Manager Interview

    In-depth discussion of experience, problem-solving approach, and team alignment

  4. 04

    Technical Panel Interview

    Multiple rounds with SRE and engineering team members, focusing on system design and reliability challenges

  5. 05

    Final Executive Interview

    Alignment with company mission and cultural fit assessment

Full posting

Original listing.

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 200,000 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 2,000 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.

This role is based in Singapore.

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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To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page.

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.

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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