Airwallex · 20 hours ago
Senior IT Engineer, Okta_SF
US - San Francisco
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expAirwallex is a unified payments and financial platform for global businesses, empowering over 200,000 companies worldwide. The Senior IT Engineer will focus on resolving technical challenges and optimizing the Okta platform for identity engineering, ensuring efficient access management and authentication for employees globally.
FinanceFinancial ServicesFinTechPayments
Responsibilities
Design, implement and maintain our identity and authentication systems at Airwallex (Okta, Google Workspace, etc.)
Manage and improve our auth policies, access controls and build (or rebuild) a strong access management policy within our identity systems
Automate and orchestrate user lifecycles across our systems and services - from beginning to end
Own the full lifecycle of features and products within this space, from proof-of-concept to implementation to operations and maintenance – leading projects from start to finish
Handle escalations from IT teams where relevant
Work closely with INFOSEC, People Ops, Engineering and IT teams to build systems that scale as we grow globally
Integrate our tools with new and existing platforms (cloud, GCP, etc.) and across our SaaS portfolio (SFDC, Slack, Google, etc.)
Build and maintain custom tools or services if needed to solve our problems
Respond to incidents as part of an on-call roster or in emergencies
Write documentation and maintain diagrams of your solutions and applications, ensuring readability and understanding
Work with IT Operations and IT Engineering to help fill gaps and collaborate on other projects and services
Constantly learn, test, evaluate and enhance our products and offerings – never letting anything get stale
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field
5+ years of relevant experience in a similar role
Strong, demonstrated written and verbal English communication skills
Demonstrated ability to write strong technical documents
Expert level understanding of common identity standards, including SAML, OAuth, SSO, etc
Expert level experience with Okta
Experience with a programming language, such as python, and infrastructure as code (i.e. Terraform) and scripting or automation tools
Experience using and understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, etc.)
Understanding of RBAC, ABAC, PBAC, ACLs and common access management principles in security and corporate IT environments
Experience working in all SaaS-based systems and applications
Strong understanding of MDM systems (macOS, windows; kandji, JAMF, intune, etc.)
Ability to move fast and urgently, making correct decisions and assumptions – sometimes without all the information
Company
Airwallex
Airwallex is a global payments and financial platform that provides business accounts, payment solutions, and spend management tools.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.53BKey Investors
AdditionSquare Peg CapitalLone Pine Capital
2025-12-08Series G· $330M
2025-05-21Series F· $150M
2025-05-21Secondary Market· $150M
Leadership Team
Jack Zhang
Co-Founder & CEO
Jacob Dai
Co-Founder & CTO
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