Principal Infrastructure Engineer (Fintech)

Location: Remote role associated with Bogota, Colombia

Salary: $12,500–$20,800 USD gross per month, based on location and experience

Company

hirify.global is a fintech and retail technology company building interest-free installment payment and shopping solutions for consumers and merchants.

What you will do

• Own the architecture and evolution of core infrastructure as traffic, data volume, and workload complexity grow.
• Design resilient AWS account, IAM, networking, multi-AZ, and multi-region architectures.
• Build and operate Kubernetes platforms, including lifecycle automation, workload isolation, autoscaling, upgrades, and deployment reliability.
• Scale and optimize Aurora RDS for MySQL and Postgres through query tuning, capacity planning, replication improvements, failover design, and safe migrations.
• Improve reliability through observability, SLOs, disaster recovery, load testing, incident response, and infrastructure automation.
• Build AI-assisted tooling for incident investigation, capacity analysis, runbook automation, anomaly analysis, and toil reduction with controlled access and auditability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a similar technical field.
• 12+ years of experience designing and operating production infrastructure at scale.
• Deep production expertise with AWS, Kubernetes, and relational databases, especially Aurora RDS with MySQL and/or Postgres.
• Strong coding and automation skills with Golang, Python, or similar languages, plus Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code experience.
• Strong systems fundamentals across Linux, networking, DNS, TLS, storage, concurrency, and distributed-system failure modes.
• Experience operating high-availability platforms, participating in on-call rotations, handling serious incidents, and testing disaster recovery.

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech, payments, or banking infrastructure.
• Experience with multi-region architectures, chaos engineering, failure testing, and distributed data recovery tradeoffs.
• Proficiency with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, or comparable observability systems.
• Experience building internal platforms, self-service tooling, progressive delivery, and AI-assisted operational automation.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with an open-source-focused engineering organization.
• Collaborate across application engineering, Security, Compliance, and engineering leadership.
• Operate in a culture emphasizing high standards, ownership, action, measurable results, simplicity, and technical accountability.
• Participate in hands-on engineering work involving production systems, incident recovery, and continuous platform improvement.