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Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Spend Foundations

A unified payments and financial platform for global businesses, powering over 150,000 businesses worldwide with integrated solutions for business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury.
Site Reliability
Senior Software Engineer
In-Person
1,000 - 5,000 Employees
6+ years of experience
Finance

Job Description

Airwallex, a leading unified payments and financial platform valued at US$6.2 billion, is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for their Spend Foundations team. With a global presence across 26 offices and serving over 150,000 businesses worldwide, this role offers an opportunity to work at the forefront of financial technology innovation.

The position, available in either Singapore or Melbourne, focuses on delivering and maintaining scalable, reliable cloud infrastructure to support key product initiatives. As an SRE, you'll be part of a groundbreaking engineering team that defines innovative solutions and sets standards for others to follow. The role involves working closely with product teams in Spend, leading infrastructure design and delivery for complex, high-risk projects such as launching new services, executing global data centre migrations, and modernizing data pipelines.

The ideal candidate brings 6+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused engineering roles, with deep expertise in cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and incident response. You'll be responsible for architecting cloud infrastructure, driving reliability and performance, leading incident response, and owning team-level SLOs and DevOps metrics.

Airwallex offers a collaborative and fast-paced environment where innovation is valued, backed by world-leading investors including Visa, Sequoia, and DST Global. The company's engineering team is diverse and focused on technical craftsmanship, continuous learning, and strong ownership principles. This role presents an excellent opportunity for those passionate about building scalable, reliable, and secure financial technology solutions with global impact.

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Responsibilities For Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Spend Foundations

  • 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

Requirements For Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Spend Foundations

Kubernetes
  • 6+ years in an SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused engineering role
  • 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
  • Degree in Computer Science or a related field