Airwallex

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Database

Airwallex

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: WashingtonUnited States

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Salary

💰 $140,000 - $240,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Design and build the platforms, automation, and AI-driven tooling that power Airwallex's database infrastructure.
  • Build a unified database observability platform providing real-time visibility into availability, security posture, reliability metrics, and latency.
  • Design and implement secure interfaces that allow AI agents to safely query and interact with production databases.
  • Develop AI-powered automation that handles routine DBA tasks reducing manual toil.
  • Create tooling that enables product engineering teams to provision, configure, scale, and manage Postgres and Redis instances through self-service workflows.
  • Establish and enforce database best practices across the organization.
  • Partner with product engineers to diagnose database performance issues, review schema designs, and provide guidance on data modeling and access patterns.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong proficiency in backend languages such as Python, Go, Java, or Kotlin.
  • Deep experience with PostgreSQL — performance tuning, query optimization, replication, backup/recovery, schema design, and operational best practices.
  • Experience with Redis — data modeling, clustering, persistence strategies, and operational management.
  • Hands-on experience with GCP (or equivalent cloud provider), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), Kubernetes, and Docker.
  • Demonstrated track record of building automation, tooling, or platforms that replaced manual operational work — not just operating databases, but engineering solutions that make operations scalable.
  • Strong system design skills, with the ability to architect reliable, scalable infrastructure services.
Benefits
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) plan
  • Short-term and long-term disability
  • Basic life insurance
  • Well-being benefits
  • 20 paid days of vacation
  • 12 paid days of company holidays
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonGoJavaKotlinPostgreSQLRedisGCPTerraformKubernetesDocker
Soft Skills
system designcollaborationproblem-solving