Senior Software Engineer, Data and AI Infrastructure at Airwallex

Department: Engineering

Compensation

$150,000 – $245,000/yr

Setup: Hybrid
Location: Seattle, Washington
Type: Full-time
Level: senior
Posted: Sep 17, 2026

Description

Airwallex is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build and operate distributed data and AI infrastructure. The role focuses on Kubernetes and public-cloud platforms, streaming and batch processing with Kafka, Spark, and Flink, AI traffic management and model serving, self-service platform capabilities, and reliability, scalability, and observability. It is a hybrid position based in Seattle, Washington, and requires at least five years of DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering experience.

Required Skills

Kubernetes
Kafka
Spark
Flink
Public cloud
Go
Python
Java
Distributed systems
Infrastructure as code
Observability

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: 5+ years of DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering experience owning production systems end to end
Experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting production Kubernetes environments
Experience with distributed data infrastructure using Kafka, Spark, or Flink, or AI infrastructure using AI gateways or model-routing platforms
Hands-on experience with a major public cloud platform such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure
Experience operating critical infrastructure with infrastructure-as-code, automated delivery, and modern observability practices
Preferred Qualifications: Platform engineering experience, particularly building internal developer platforms or paved-road workflows
Experience with SGLang, vLLM, or NVIDIA Triton Inference Server
Knowledge of GPU scheduling, batching, model parallelism, memory management, autoscaling, and inference-performance optimization
Experience improving the cost efficiency of large-scale data processing or AI inference workloads
Contributions to infrastructure, data-platform, Kubernetes, or AI-serving open-source projects
Translation Company Name: Airwallex