Director, Builder Infrastructure & AI Operations

Careers at Remitly Nicaragua; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 576,000 - 648,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

ESPP

26 days paid holiday

Hybrid Kraków office

Commute allowance

Health coverage

Life Insurance

Travel Insurance

Lunch Card

Education Budget

Mental Health program

Family planning program

Pension plan

Job summary

Remitly Poland in Kraków seeks a Director of Engineering, Builder Infrastructure, to shape the multi-region Builder Infrastructure domain. You will guide Cloud Engineering, Container Platform, and Infrastructure Security, setting long-term strategy and aligning teams across Kraków and the US.

You will lead engineering managers, drive API-driven self-service platforms, AI-operated infrastructure, and strong security posture while balancing reliability, cost, and velocity.

Qualifications

• Experience leading multiple infrastructure or platform teams through engineering managers across geographies.
• Proven track record delivering a multi-year infrastructure strategy that changed how an organization builds and ships.
• Experience designing engineering organizations with clear team boundaries and headcount planning.
• Automation-first mindset with API-driven control planes and self-service capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Define a strategy for Builder Infrastructure across regions and services and translate it into domain goals.
• Design domain boundaries, ownership model, and workforce plan across Krakow and the US.
• Lead engineering managers and senior engineers, building bench and succession plans.
• Run infrastructure as a product with published APIs, tracking adoption, lead time, and toil.
• Set direction for AI-operated infrastructure with policy and human approvals for changes.
• Own end-to-end security implementation, from least-privilege identities to hardened images.
• Make trade-off decisions balancing reliability, security, cost, and delivery speed.
• Manage infrastructure spend as a unit cost with finance and tech leadership.
• Partner with Security, SRE, Builder Experience, and product leaders on cross-domain problems.
• Establish visibility mechanisms for team health, delivery, and operational quality.

Skills

AI for infra teams

Leadership across countries

Multi-year strategy

Org design

Automation & API control planes

Cloud & Kubernetes

Security & compliance mindset

Executive communication

Tools

Kubernetes

IAM/SPIFFE

Sigstore

SLSA

OPA Gatekeeper

Job description

Remitly Poland in Kraków seeks a Director of Engineering, Builder Infrastructure, to shape the multi-region Builder Infrastructure domain. You will guide Cloud Engineering, Container Platform, and Infrastructure Security, setting long-term strategy and aligning teams across Kraków and the US.

You will lead engineering managers, drive API-driven self-service platforms, AI-operated infrastructure, and strong security posture while balancing reliability, cost, and velocity.