Engineering Manager, Infrastructure Automation

Job Overview

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 200,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, 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 2,200 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 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. 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

Airwallex’s Infrastructure & Productivity division is the backbone of the company’s global engineering organization. We build and operate the cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, observability platforms, data pipelines, and SRE practices that power hundreds of engineers across 10+ offices and multiple time zones. Our mission is to build and operate a globally distributed platform, empower engineering teams with world-class tools, and advocate best practices that make the right way the easy way.

Within this division, we are forming a new Infrastructure Automation team with an ambitious mandate: leverage AI agents to automate the operational toil out of DevOps, SRE, and DBA workflows. This team will build intelligent systems that handle incident response, root cause analysis, database operations, infrastructure provisioning, and change management—turning manual runbooks into autonomous agents that operate with human-in-the-loop safety guardrails. You will lead this team from Seattle, working alongside a globally distributed organization of infrastructure engineers, SREs, DBAs, and platform architects who are passionate about reliability, automation, and engineering excellence.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the Infrastructure Automation team: Hire, mentor, and develop a team of 5 engineers (3 SWE/DevOps + 2 DBA/SWE). Set clear goals, provide regular feedback, conduct performance reviews, and create an environment where engineers do the best work of their careers. Establish team processes, rituals, and culture from scratch.


• Define and execute the AI automation strategy: Own the technical vision and roadmap for AI-powered infrastructure agents. Identify the highest-impact automation opportunities across DevOps, SRE, and DBA operations and prioritize ruthlessly. Translate organizational pain points into a concrete engineering backlog.


• Build AI agents for DevOps and SRE automation: Lead the design and development of intelligent agents that automate incident response, root cause analysis, infrastructure provisioning, deployment operations, and change management.