Principal Infrastructure Engineer (AWS)

Location: France, 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 building interest-free installment payment solutions and shopping experiences for consumers and merchants.

What you will do

• Own the architecture and evolution of infrastructure supporting increasing traffic, data volume, and workload complexity.
• Design resilient AWS account, IAM, networking, multi-AZ, and multi-region architectures.
• Build and operate Kubernetes platforms, including cluster lifecycle automation, workload isolation, autoscaling, upgrades, and deployment reliability.
• Scale and optimize Aurora RDS for MySQL and PostgreSQL through query tuning, indexing, capacity planning, replication, failover, and safe migrations.
• Improve reliability through observability, service-level objectives, disaster recovery, load testing, capacity planning, and safe infrastructure migrations.
• Participate in on-call rotations, lead technical recovery during major incidents, and build AI-assisted tooling for investigation, runbook automation, capacity analysis, and toil reduction.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 12+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, site reliability, software development, or related engineering disciplines.
• Deep production expertise with AWS, Kubernetes, and Aurora RDS for MySQL and/or PostgreSQL; EKS experience is strongly preferred.
• 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, distributed systems, observability, CI/CD, and disaster recovery.
• Experience operating high-availability platforms, participating in on-call rotations, responding to incidents, and validating recovery objectives.

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech, payments, or banking environments.
• Experience with multi-region architectures, chaos engineering, and distributed data recovery tradeoffs.
• Proficiency with 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

• Remote full-time role with an engineering culture focused on high standards, ownership, simplicity, and measurable results.
• Emphasis on open-source technologies and building internal capabilities where practical.
• Work closely with application engineering, Security, Compliance, and engineering leadership.
• Participate in a collaborative environment that values candid communication, respectful disagreement, action, and accountability.