Staff Site Reliability Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Spend at Airwallex in Singapore. This role involves working closely with product teams in Spend to deliver and maintain scalable, reliable cloud infrastructure in support of key product initiatives. The role is based in Singapore.

🏢 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.

🎯 The Role

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.

✅ Key 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.

📌 Required 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.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience in a fintech or similarly regulated industry.
• Familiarity with data streaming, analytics pipelines, or financial data systems.

🎁 Benefits

Competitive

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

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.