Principal Infrastructure Engineer (Fintech)

Location: Netherlands, 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 payment solutions and shopping experiences.

What you will do

• Own the architecture and evolution of core infrastructure supporting increasing traffic, data volume, and workload complexity.
• Design resilient AWS account, IAM, networking, multi-AZ, and multi-region architectures.
• Operate and improve Kubernetes platforms, including cluster lifecycle, 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, incident response, load testing, and safe infrastructure migrations.
• Build infrastructure-as-code, operational automation, cost-efficiency improvements, and AI-assisted tooling for investigation and toil reduction.

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 RDS/Aurora for 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 use of AI tooling.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Participation in an on-call rotation is part of the role.
• Work focuses on open-source technologies and building internal capabilities where practical.
• Engineering culture emphasizes high standards, accountability, simplicity, measurable results, and respectful technical disagreement.
• Employees are described as purpose-driven people with diverse interests and backgrounds.