Security Engineer II
Description For Security Engineer II
Airwallex, valued at US$5.6 billion, is seeking a Security Engineer II to join their Information Security Team in Shanghai. As a unified payments and financial platform serving over 100,000 global businesses, we're looking for a skilled security professional to help protect our infrastructure and applications.
In this role, you'll work directly with the Security Engineering Lead, collaborating across IT, product, and engineering teams. You'll be responsible for identifying, protecting, detecting, responding to, and recovering from cybersecurity threats. This dynamic position requires expertise in security infrastructure, incident response, and threat analysis.
The ideal candidate brings 3-5 years of security engineering experience, strong coding abilities in Python or Java, and cloud platform knowledge. You'll work with cutting-edge security tools and technologies, performing everything from threat hunting to forensic analysis. Your work will directly impact the security posture of a rapidly growing fintech company that serves major clients like Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, and SHEIN.
We offer a unique opportunity to work with a high-caliber security team in a fast-paced, global environment. With offices across 20+ locations and backing from world-leading investors like Sequoia and Mastercard, Airwallex provides an excellent platform for career growth. If you're passionate about solving complex security challenges and want to protect a platform that's reshaping global payments, this role offers the perfect blend of technical challenge and business impact.
Join our team of 1,500+ innovative professionals and help build the financial platform of the future. We value diversity and merit-based decision-making, ensuring every team member has the opportunity to make a significant impact.
Responsibilities For Security Engineer II
- Partner with teams to analyze applications and drive security improvements
- Design, develop, test, and evaluate new security controls
- Perform incident response and threat hunting
- Design and implement custom detection strategies
- Analyze and develop secure systems integration
- Use endpoint, network and cloud tools for threat analysis
- Design and maintain cybersecurity infrastructure
- Investigate and respond to cybersecurity incidents
- Perform security assessments of systems and networks
- Conduct threat tracking and analysis
- Perform network navigation and forensic analysis
- Identify and preserve digital forensic evidence
Requirements For Security Engineer II
- Degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or similar technical course
- 3-5 years of experience in security engineering or incident response
- Experience with Cloud platforms (GCP or similar)
- Hands-on experience with coding languages (Python, Java or similar)
- In-depth understanding of attacker tools and techniques
- Knowledge of common software development tools and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with Splunk and security monitoring tools (preferred)
- Experience with Okta, GSuite and cloud based VPN services (preferred)
