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Principal Infrastructure Engineer

🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-12 → 2026-09-25

Core

Own technical architecture and evolution of core infrastructure, building capacity models, running load/stress tests, and designing resilient multi-region AWS and Kubernetes platforms.

Role type

Principal Infrastructure Engineer

Builds

Resilient cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, Aurora RDS), observability tooling, and AI-assisted operational automation.

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure / Site Reliability Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

AWS architecture (IAM, networking, multi-AZ), Kubernetes cluster lifecycle and autoscaling, Aurora RDS optimization (MySQL/Postgres), Golang/Python, Terraform, Linux systems fundamentals, distributed systems failure modes, observability (metrics/logs/traces), disaster recovery planning, capacity modeling, load testing, CI/CD automation.

Preferred skills

Fintech/payments/banking experience, chaos engineering, Prometheus/Grafana/Loki/Tempo, AI-assisted tooling for incident investigation and toil reduction.

Responsibilities

Design resilient multi-region architectures; build and operate Kubernetes platforms; scale and optimize Aurora RDS; implement reliability engineering practices (error budgets, backpressure); participate in on-call rotations and incident recovery; design disaster recovery mechanisms; build infrastructure-as-code and automation; improve observability; deliver safe infrastructure migrations; build and evaluate AI-assisted tooling.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship

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