Principal Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Türkiye, Remote

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

Company

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

What you will do

• Own the architecture and evolution of core infrastructure supporting increasing traffic, data volume, and workload complexity.
• Design and operate resilient AWS infrastructure, including IAM, networking, multi-account, multi-AZ, and multi-region architectures.
• Build and operate Kubernetes platforms with lifecycle automation, workload isolation, autoscaling, safe upgrades, and reliable deployments.
• Scale and optimize Aurora RDS for MySQL and Postgres, including query performance, replication, failover, migrations, and recovery.
• Improve reliability through observability, capacity planning, load testing, disaster recovery, infrastructure-as-code, and cost optimization.
• Participate in on-call rotations, respond to serious incidents, and build AI-assisted tooling for investigation, runbook automation, and toil reduction.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related 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 with high-availability platforms, incident response, disaster recovery, observability, capacity planning, load testing, CI/CD, and active AI tooling use.

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech, payments, or banking with demanding reliability, security, and audit requirements.
• Experience with multi-region architectures, chaos engineering, and distributed data recovery tradeoffs.
• Proficiency with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, or comparable observability tools.
• Experience building internal platforms, self-service tooling, progressive delivery, or AI-assisted incident automation.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote, full-time role with participation in an on-call rotation.
• Open-source-oriented engineering culture focused on building solutions internally where practical.
• Work closely with application engineering, Security, Compliance, and engineering leadership.
• Culture emphasizes high standards, technical ownership, measurable outcomes, direct communication, and continuous improvement.