Principal Engineer (Verification Platform)

Join Remitly as a Principal Engineer in our Verification organization. You will lead the teams responsible for identity verification, authentication and authorization, compliance controls, transaction monitoring, and the customer data platform. This senior individual contributor role will involve setting architectural direction, shaping APIs and platform services, and ensuring correctness, auditability, and scale in a heavily regulated environment. You will also mentor and develop senior engineers within the verification organization and serve as a technical role model across the organization.

• Definir la arquitectura y la visión técnica a largo plazo para los servicios de plataforma de verificación y cumplimiento de Remitly, asegurando que puedan satisfacer las necesidades de múltiples productos y mercados.
• Liderar la plataformaización de los servicios de verificación existentes mediante el rediseño de sistemas construidos en torno a nuestro producto de remesas en capacidades de plataforma reutilizables y bien documentadas.
• Establecer y promover estándares de ingeniería sobre cómo se diseñan, construyen e integran los controles de cumplimiento en la superficie del producto de Remitly.
• Prior experience as part of an internal platform or infrastructure team — understands the unique dynamics of building for internal developer customers, including adoption, versioning, and migration
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a demonstrated track record of principal-level technical scope and organizational impact
• Hands-on experience with identity, authentication and authorization systems – IAM, OAuth, KYC pipelines, or similar verification and access control domains
• Ability to lead through influence across multiple teams without direct authority, driving alignment on complex, cross-functional technical decisions
• Deep expertise in designing and operating distributed systems at scale including strong command of reliability, availability, and performance trade-offs
• Proven experience building developer-facing APIs and internal platform services, with a genuine appreciation for developer experience and platform ergonomics