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Airwallex is a pioneering fintech company breaking down financial barriers and enabling seamless global business. At its core, the Tech Platform Team drives the foundation of our technological excellence, building scalable, high-performance systems that power innovation worldwide. Optimizing Global Traffic – Managing north-south and east-west API Gateways for seamless external and internal interactions. Ensuring Fast, Reliable Connectivity – Building a robust global routing infrastructure that seamlessly balances regulatory compliance with a unified, high-performance user experience across regions. Enhancing Search – Powering an intelligent search platform for fast, accurate information retrieval. Orchestrating Notifications – Enabling efficient delivery of SMS, Email, Webhooks, and Push notifications. Automating Workflows – Driving seamless workflow creation, scheduling, and execution.
Job Responsibility:
Build Impactful Infrastructure – Develop and refine a cutting-edge application infrastructure that eliminates common technical bottlenecks, reduces maintenance overhead for developers, and accelerates business innovation
Solve Complex, High - Scale Challenges – Tackle intricate, organization-wide problems by leveraging the latest technologies, including reactive programming, Temporal, vector databases, distributed systems, and advanced gateway solutions
Drive Strategic Technological Excellence – Conduct comprehensive evaluations of emerging solutions and guide the company’s long-term architectural decisions to ensure scalability, efficiency, and global resilience
Requirements:
Strong proficiency in backend programming languages such as Java, Go, Rust, Lua, or Python and their corresponding frameworks
Infrastructure & Cloud Expertise: Familiarity with cloud services (AWS, GCP, Aliyun) and infrastructure management tools (Kubernetes, Docker, Istio)
Database & Storage Systems Expertise: Proven hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, and logical replication, with a deep understanding of performance optimization, scalability, and data consistency in distributed systems
Traffic Management Expertise: Strong familiarity with NGINX, OpenResty, Envoy, APISIX, Kong, and Istio, with a solid understanding of traffic routing, load balancing, and API gateway management in high-scale distributed systems
API Lifecycle & Security Expertise: Strong experience and deep understanding of API lifecycle management, from design to deprecation, along with expertise in API security best practices, including authentication, authorization, and threat mitigation
Nice to have:
Performance Tuning Expertise: Hands-on experience optimizing API Gateway performance, including advanced profiling techniques such as CPU flame graphs to diagnose and enhance system efficiency
Service Mesh Expertise: Hands-on experience managing traffic between Kubernetes pods using Istio, including traffic routing, load balancing, and resilience strategies within a service mesh architecture
API Security Expertise: Hands-on experience in securing APIs, including mitigating threats such as DDoS attacks, SQL injection, and implementing mTLS (mutual TLS) and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) to ensure robust protection and compliance
Open Source & Innovation Expertise: Stay up to date with the latest advancements in the open-source community, with the ability to evaluate, adopt, and introduce cutting-edge technologies to enhance Airwallex’s technology stack