Hiring: Staff Software Engineer, Productivity Company: Airwallex Location: Seattle, WA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 13:25:47 Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Bazel, CI/CD, Change Management, Datadog, Docker, ELK Stack, Embedded Systems, GCP, Gradle, Grafana, Java, Kafka, Kotlin, Kubernetes, LLM, Microservices, Node.js, Prometheus, Python, Root Cause Analysis, Rust, Salesforce, Systems Design, Terraform About the job Experience: •8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, or platform infrastructure at scale. Track record of technical leadership, architectural decision-making, and mentoring across teams. Required Skills: •Lead the planning, design, and implementation of the Airwallex engineering productivity system, defining domain-level technical roadmaps and owning their delivery end-to-end. •Interface directly with feature teams to deeply understand the engineering process and subsequent development directions, complete productivity needs analysis, architecture design, and core function development, and be able to grasp the design of complex systems to ensure the quality of complex architecture. •Design and develop components based on the company's microservice framework, ensuring scalable, reliable infrastructure services including messaging platforms, observability systems, and workflow automation tools that serve all engineering teams at Airwallex. •Define and drive the AI-powered developer productivity strategy: evaluate, prototype, and deploy AI/ML-powered solutions (e.g., AI-assisted code review, automated test generation, intelligent build optimization, agent based root cause analysis) to streamline developer workflows and improve code quality across the engineering organization. •Optimize CI/CD pipelines at scale: architect and continuously enhance Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines to improve software delivery efficiency, reduce build times, and increase deployment frequency across Airwallex's global engineering organization. •Familiar with common design patterns, with experience in design and development of large-scale distributed, high concurrency, high load, high availability systems. •Mastery of various common server technologies, which can optimize service response and data query, ensure various service quality, and solve the problems of high concurrency and high availability. •Strong proficiency in backend programming languages such as Python, Java, Go, Kotlin, Rust, or Node.js and their corresponding frameworks. Qualifications: •Demonstrated ability to move fast and grow in dynamic, collaborative, and ambiguous environments, with experience successfully proposing new solutions across a landscape of diverse decision makers. This aligns with Airwallex's Operating Principles of "Move Fast with Conviction" and "Curious." •Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters •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 @ •Email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!