About the team

Airwallex's Information Security team partners closely with engineering, IT, and other stakeholders to protect our systems, data, and employees while enabling the business to move quickly. The team helps build and maintain strong security practices across the company-from secure product and infrastructure design to risk reduction, incident response, audits, and compliance-so security is built into how we operate, not treated as a blocker.

What You'll do

As a Corporate Security Engineer, you will be a critical part of defending Airwallex's enterprise systems and employees from threats such as malware, phishing and unauthorised access.

This role is a highly technical opportunity to detect, investigate and prevent security issues across a modern corporate environment. You will work on digital forensics, incident response and tool development and deployment, protecting a range of corporate IT platforms from endpoints to identity providers.

This role is based in San Francisco

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to incident response for malware, phishing, digital forensics.
• Design, develop, test, and evaluate new corporate security controls for a rapidly growing business.
• Perform incident response and hunt through log sources to identify new threats.
• Design and implement security alerts and workflows to support the incident response lifecycle.
• Secure corporate IT infrastructure and remediate issues across identity providers, endpoints, corporate networks and other platforms.
• Deploy, configure and operate security tooling with a laser focus on impact.

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:

• 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.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or similar.
• 3+ years working in a security engineering or incident response role within a tech company.
• Strong experience with Crowdstrike, Splunk or other common security monitoring tools.
• In depth 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.
• Experience with GCP, Alibaba Cloud or other cloud platforms is preferred.
• Experience with Okta, Google Workspace and cloud-based VPN services is preferred.
• Experience securing endpoints, including with MDM tooling such as Kandji, Intune
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical security and software concepts to a non-technical audience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong Engineering mindset with scripting experience such as with Python, Bash, Powershell.

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