Security Engineer

Position:
Security Engineer, Insider Risk

Company:
Airwallex

Location:
CN - Shanghai

Employment Type:
Full time

Short Summary:
Airwallex is a unified payments and financial platform for global businesses, empowering over 250,000 businesses worldwide. The Information Security Team is proactive and works across various functions to protect the payments ecosystem.

Responsibilities:
- Lead the creation and tuning of high-efficacy detection signatures and analytics across SIEM, EDR, DLP, and payment monitoring platforms.
- Support incident response and digital forensics efforts.
- Identify and mitigate risks such as account misuse, privilege escalation, and social engineering.
- Collaborate with fraud analysts, KYC operations, compliance, and the broader security team to improve high-risk workflows.
- Create, maintain, and operationalize detection logic for insider and fraud scenarios.
- Share best practices in threat modeling and detection with the engineering team.

Requirement:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or relevant field.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in security engineering or detection engineering, focusing on insider threat or fraud risk.
- Direct experience building, tuning, and operating detection and monitoring solutions.
- Expertise in designing and implementing DLP controls and correlating exfiltration techniques with insider scenarios.
- Working knowledge of modern cloud-native architectures.
- Experience with coordinating incident response and digital forensics.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience within Fintech, payment, or regulated environments handling substantial fraud or insider risk volumes.
- Strong background in digital forensics and transaction analysis.
- Understanding of regulatory requirements and compliance best practices for financial institutions.

Benefits:
- Equal opportunity employer valuing diversity and merit-based hiring.
- Commitment to providing accommodations for disabilities or special needs.