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.

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 communica