Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Spend

Airwallex
Singapore
On-site

Who this role is best for

Geared toward experienced engineers comfortable with cloud infrastructure design and incident response, this role is based in Singapore and emphasizes collaboration with product teams on high-visibility projects.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 7+ years of SRE or DevOps experience and a track record in cloud infrastructure and incident response.
    — “Minimum 7 years in an SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused engineering role.
  • Individuals who have led large-scale, cross-functional projects and have a strong grasp of reliability and performance metrics.
    — “Able to lead SRE strategy for large-scale, cross-functional projects.
  • Professionals with expertise in Kubernetes and observability tools, and who can drive operational readiness in development teams.
    — “Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), Kubernetes, observability, and incident response.

Things to consider

  • The role is based in Singapore, which may require relocation or local presence.
    — “This role is based in Singapore.
  • Candidates should be prepared to collaborate with central DevOps and security teams on compliance and resilience.
    — “Collaborate with central DevOps and security teams to ensure compliance and resilience.

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience in leading infrastructure design for high-risk, global projects.
    — “Lead on infrastructure design and delivery for complex, high-risk projects
  • Demonstrate your ability to define and own team-level SLOs and runbooks.
    — “Own team-level SLOs, runbooks, and DevOps performance metrics.
  • Showcase your history of embedding with development teams to drive reliability best practices.
    — “Proven ability to work closely with developers and guide reliability best practices.
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • cloud infrastructure
  • devops
  • site reliability engineering
  • incident response
  • observability
Typical background
cloud infrastructuredevopssite reliability engineering

Skills & requirements

Required

Cloud InfrastructureDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringIncident ResponseObservabilityAutomationSloRunbooksDevops Performance Metrics

Preferred

Embedded SystemsNetworkingSecurityPerformance TuningCapacity Planning

Stack & domain

Cloud InfrastructureSlosRunbooksDevops Performance MetricsCollaborationAutomationObservabilityIncident ResponseTeamworkOwnershipCuriosityDecision-makingSite ReliabilityCloud ServicesGlobal Services

About the role

Original posting from Airwallex via Ashby

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 250,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, 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 2,300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US$11 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 https://www.airwallex.com/us/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 Staff 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:

  • Minimum 7 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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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.

Source: Airwallex careers (Ashby)

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