Senior Software Engineer - Database

Airwallex
Seattle
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 140,000 - 240,000 annuallyFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Collaboration","Communication","Problem-solving","Ownership"]

Senior/Staff SRE specializing in database infrastructure and automation, designing AI-driven tooling and an observability platform to improve the reliability, performance, and security of Postgres and Redis across a global payments platform. Based in Seattle, you’ll build self-service database tooling, AI-assisted DBA automation, and maintain best practices with on-call responsibility.

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Airwallex
Airwallex
5 months ago

Senior Software Engineer - Database

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Job Summary

Senior/Staff SRE specializing in database infrastructure and automation, designing AI-driven tooling and an observability platform to improve the reliability, performance, and security of Postgres and Redis across a global payments platform. Based in Seattle, you’ll build self-service database tooling, AI-assisted DBA automation, and maintain best practices with on-call responsibility.
Location: Seattle
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build a unified database observability platform: Design and implement an "eagle-eye" view across all database instances, providing real-time visibility into availability, security posture, reliability metrics, and latency — enabling proactive issue detection before incidents occur.
  • •Build MCP (Model Context Protocol) for safe AI agent access: Design and implement secure interfaces that allow AI agents to safely query and interact with production databases, enabling the next generation of AI-powered internal tooling while maintaining strict security and access control.
  • •Build an Agentic AI DBA: Develop AI-powered automation that handles routine DBA tasks — performance tuning, capacity planning, schema review, incident triage, and remediation — reducing manual toil and enabling the team to scale operations without scaling headcount.
  • •Build self-service database platform: Create tooling that enables product engineering teams to provision, configure, scale, and manage Postgres and Redis instances through self-service workflows, with built-in guardrails for security, compliance, and best practices.
  • •Drive database reliability and operational excellence: Establish and enforce database best practices across the organization — connection pooling, query optimization, backup/restore strategies, failover procedures, and change management. Participate in on-call rotations for database incidents.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 140,000 - 240,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityAnnual Bonus

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of professional software engineering experience with backend languages such as Python, Go, Java, or Kotlin
  • •Deep experience with PostgreSQL — performance tuning, 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
  • •Track record of building automation, tooling, or platforms that replace manual operational work
Experience:5+ yearsFintechPayments
Skills:CollaborationCommunicationProblem-solvingOwnership
Tech Stack:PythonGoJavaKotlinPostgreSQLRedisGCPTerraformKubernetesDockerGrafanaPrometheusDatadog

Company Brief

Airwallex
Airwallex is a global payments and financial platform that provides business accounts, cross-border payments, treasury, corporate cards, and embedded finance APIs to help companies manage global financial operations and scale internationally.
Industry: Fintech Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: Singapore, Singapore
Founded: 2015
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