# Senior Software Engineer, Data and AI Infrastructure at Airwallex

- Company: Airwallex
- Company website: https://www.airwallexhelpau.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: US - Seattle
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $150K to $245K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-17
- Apply by: 2026-11-01
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/airwallex/f5be8477-ca01-418b-bd22-946430d28831
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/airwallex-senior-software-engineer-data-and-ai-infrastructure/

## About the role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build the infrastructure that powers our data and AI platforms. You will design and operate distributed systems that support high-throughput data processing, real-time workloads, and production AI applications. This includes evolving our Kubernetes and cloud foundations, improving the reliability and scalability of platforms such as Kafka, Spark, and Flink, and building infrastructure for AI traffic management and model serving.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering, owning production systems end to end
- Strong experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting production Kubernetes environments
- Experience building or operating distributed data infrastructure with technologies such as Kafka , Spark , or Flink OR experience developing AI infrastructure such as AI gateways or model-routing platforms
- Hands-on experience with at least one major public cloud platform, such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure
- Strong knowledge of cloud and container networking, including DNS, load balancing, ingress, service discovery, TLS, routing, and network security
- Proficiency in one or more of Go , Python , or Java , with experience writing maintainable production software

Tags: Engineering