CareerPlan

Principal Infrastructure Engineer

RemoteFull-time$150k2026-09-14 → 2026-11-10
Remote

Core

Own the architecture and evolution of core infrastructure, ensuring reliability, throughput, and cost efficiency as traffic and data volume grow.

Role type

Principal Infrastructure Engineer

Builds

Resilient AWS account/networking architectures, Kubernetes platforms, and scaled Aurora RDS databases

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure (AWS) & Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

AWS (compute, IAM, VPC, multi-account), Kubernetes (EKS, lifecycle, autoscaling), Relational Databases (Aurora MySQL/Postgres), Golang/Python, Terraform, Linux, Networking, Distributed Systems

Preferred skills

Fintech/Payments domain, Chaos Engineering, Prometheus/Grafana/Loki/Tempo, AI-assisted operational tooling

Responsibilities

Design resilient multi-region architectures, operate and optimize Kubernetes clusters, scale and optimize Aurora RDS, define SLOs and error budgets, lead technical recovery from incidents, build infrastructure-as-code and observability capabilities, design disaster recovery mechanisms

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship