Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Spend

About the role

Airwallex, the AI-native financial operating system used by more than 675,000 businesses, is hiring a Staff Site Reliability Engineer for its Spend team. The role works closely with product teams to deliver and maintain scalable, reliable cloud infrastructure, and leads infrastructure design and delivery for complex, high-risk projects such as launching new services, global data centre migrations and modernising data pipelines. It is based in Singapore.

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 profile

• At least 7 years in an SRE, DevOps or infrastructure-focused engineering role.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field.
• 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.

Required skills

• Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP)
• Kubernetes
• Observability and incident response

Preferred: experience in a fintech or similarly regulated industry, and familiarity with data streaming, analytics pipelines or financial data systems. Applicants should apply through the company's careers site; the company states it will not ask for bank details or sensitive IDs during the process.