Senior Cloud Engineer

At Remitly, we believe everyone deserves the freedom to access, move, and manage their money wherever life takes them. Since 2011, we've delivered secure, simple, and reliable ways for millions of customers to send money globally. The Cloud Team designs, builds, and operates Remitly's AWS cloud foundation, managing cloud infrastructure at significant scale supporting financial transactions worldwide.

• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure with significant hands-on AWS expertise.
• Strong proficiency in at least one backend programming language; experience with Go is strongly preferred.
• Deep knowledge of cloud networking including VPC design, subnetting, routing, Transit Gateway, DNS, and load balancing.
• Experience with edge infrastructure management such as CloudFront, AWS Shield, WAF configurations, and CDN failover strategies.
• Experience building and operating infrastructure as code, preferably with Terraform.
• Understanding of cloud and infrastructure management concepts including multi-account governance and organizational tooling.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and EKS is a plus.

• Lead architecture decisions on cloud topology, multi-account governance, cross-region connectivity, and platform abstractions.
• Own and evolve edge infrastructure such as CloudFront distributions, AWS Shield, WAF configurations, CDN failover strategies, and latency-optimized routing.
• Build and maintain production Go services and CLI tooling to automate, observe, and extend the cloud platform at scale.
• Design and operate global partner and bank connectivity networks including VPNs (IPSec/IKEv2), Direct Connect, and BGP routing.
• Collaborate with SRE, Security, and Platform teams to embed observability, compliance, and operational excellence.
• Troubleshoot complex network issues across distributed cloud environments using TCP/IP protocols and traffic flow analysis.
• Participate in a 5-person weekly on-call rotation, including occasional late syncs with Seattle (4–6 PM CET).

Employees in this position work onsite Tuesday through Thursday each week as part of the current hybrid-work expectations. Additional onsite attendance may be required based on business needs. The company may modify hybrid-work expectations from time to time.