Airwallex
Senior Software Engineer - Database
$140K–$240K
US - Seattle · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Apr 16, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
About the job
Build and operate platforms, automation, and AI-driven tools that improve the reliability, performance, security, and scalability of Airwallex’s database infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Build database observability and secure MCP interfaces for AI agents to interact with production databases.
- Develop an agentic AI DBA and self-service workflows to automate database operations and provisioning.
- Establish database reliability practices, participate in incident on-call rotations, and help engineering teams improve performance and data models.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience and strong proficiency in a backend language such as Python, Go, Java, or Kotlin.
- Deep PostgreSQL experience, including performance tuning, replication, backup and recovery, and schema design.
- Experience with Redis, including data modelling, clustering, persistence strategies, and operational management.
- Hands-on experience with GCP or an equivalent cloud provider, infrastructure as code such as Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker.
Nice to have
- Experience with Google CloudSQL and/or Google Memorystore.
- Experience with AI/ML, LLM integration, or AI-powered automation, particularly for infrastructure or operations.
Pay
$140K – $240K (USD; base salary)
Tools
PostgreSQL, Google CloudSQL, Redis, Google Memorystore, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker
AI focus
Design secure MCP interfaces for AI agents and develop an agentic AI DBA to automate performance tuning, capacity planning, schema review, incident triage, and remediation.
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