Director of Engineering, Builder Infrastructure

About the Role: The Builder Platform is focused on giving every builder at Remitly a self-service path from idea to production. With AI, builders now include all employees, as well as the agents working with all of them. Builder Infrastructure is the foundation of that platform, running the infrastructure and networking behind a remittance business that moves money around the world every hour of every day. The next few years mean tailoring it to be AI-first and global by default, with growth absorbed by software and agents. The Director of Engineering, Builder Infrastructure leads three teams through their managers: Cloud Engineering, Container Platform, and Infrastructure Security. The role sets the multi-year direction for the domain, decides how ownership is divided across teams and geographies, and is accountable to executive leadership for the velocity, reliability, security posture, and cost of Remitly's infrastructure.

Skills and Technologies:

• Agentic infrastructure operations: LLM agents, MCP integrations, and the guardrails, audit trails, and approval flows that let agents act on production safely
• Cloud foundations on AWS, GCP, or Azure: multi-account governance, IaC and API-driven control planes, and multi-region and edge networking
• Kubernetes fleet management: multi-cluster operations, cluster lifecycle and upgrades, autoscaling, and GitOps delivery
• Istio service mesh, including ambient mode, for traffic management, mTLS, and zero-trust service-to-service communication
• Identity at organization scale: IAM, workload identity (SPIFFE/SPIRE, EKS Pod Identity), just-in-time access, and governance of non-human and agent identities
• Image and supply chain security: golden image pipelines, CIS hardening, SBOMs, image signing (Sigstore), SLSA, and automated patching with staged fleet rollout
• Policy as code and admission control (OPA Gatekeeper, Kyverno) across the cloud and cluster layers
• FinOps unit economics and compliance frameworks for financial services (PCI DSS, SOC 2)

Compensation Details

In Poland, Remitly employees are shareholders in our Company and equity is part of our total compensation plan. Your recruiter can share more information about medical benefits offered, as well as other financial benefits and total compensation components offered with this role.

Our Connected Work Culture: Driving Innovation, Together

At Remitly, we believe that true innovation sparks when we come together. Our Connected Work Culture fosters dynamic in-person collaboration, where ideas ignite and challenging problems find solutions faster. Under the Company's current hybrid-work expectations, employees in this position work onsite Tuesday through Thursday each week. Additional onsite attendance may be required based on business needs, and the Company may modify its hybrid-work expectations from time to time. These intentional in-office moments are vital for deepening relationships, fueling creativity, and ensuring your impact is felt where it matters most.

About Remitly:

At Remitly, we believe everyone deserves the freedom to access, move, and manage their money wherever life takes them. Since 2011, we’ve tirelessly delivered on our promise to customers sending money globally, providing secure, simple, and reliable ways to manage their money, ensuring true peace of mind. Whether it’s supporting loved ones back home, growing a business across continents, or pursuing new opportunities abroad, we’re not just here to move money— we’re here to move our global customers forward.

We’re looking for builders, reimaginers, and global thinkers who want to work at the intersection of technology, trust, and transformation. If that’s you and you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career—we invite you to join over 2,800 passionate Remitlians worldwide who are united by our vision to transform lives with trusted financial services that transcend borders.

You Have:

• A point of view, grounded in practice, on how AI agents change infrastructure operations and the shape of the teams that run them
• Experience leading multiple infrastructure or platform teams through engineering managers, ideally across countries and time zones
• A track record of setting and delivering a multi-year infrastructure strategy that changed how an engineering organization builds and ships
• Experience designing engineering organizations: drawing team boundaries, planning headcount across geographies, and raising the quality of engineering management
• Infrastructure that scaled ahead of business growth with sublinear headcount, delivered through automation, self-service, and API-driven control planes
• Depth across cloud, container, and identity systems sufficient to review large-scale designs and explain why current approaches replaced earlier ones
• Experience running infrastructure in a regulated environment, with security and compliance treated as design constraints from the start
• Credibility with executives up to the C-suite, translating infrastructure risk, cost, and investment into business terms