Principal Infrastructure Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Mon, Sep 14, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days
Job Summary
Seeking a Principal Infrastructure Engineer to work remotely in a full-time capacity, responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable infrastructure solutions while addressing complex technical challenges related to throughput, latency, and automation.
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, driving technical recovery during serious incidents and implementing corrective actions from postmortems
Required qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- 12+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or site reliability engineering with hands-on experience in production environments
- Deep expertise with AWS and Kubernetes, including cluster lifecycle and networking
- Strong coding and automation skills using languages such as Golang or Python, along with infrastructure-as-code experience
- Experience operating a 24/7 high-availability platform with hands-on incident response capabilities
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