Principal Infrastructure Engineer

Job Summary

To tackle complex infrastructure challenges, the full-time Principal Infrastructure Engineer will design, build, and operate scalable systems while focusing on improving throughput, reducing latency, and enhancing resilience in a remote work environment.

Key responsibilities:

• Own the technical architecture and evolution of core infrastructure, implementing changes to support increasing traffic and workload complexity
• Engineer for scale and performance by diagnosing bottlenecks and validating improvements across compute, networking, and databases
• Participate in on-call rotations and drive technical recovery during serious incidents, utilizing evidence-based triage and implementing corrective actions

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a similar technical field
• 12+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, site reliability, or software development with hands-on depth in production infrastructure
• Deep expertise with AWS, Kubernetes, and relational databases (RDS/Aurora)
• Strong coding and automation skills using Golang, Python, or similar languages, alongside experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform
• Experience operating a 24/7 high-availability platform with hands-on incident response and postmortem remediation