Job Overview
Principal Cloud-Native Payments Platform Engineer
📍 Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
🏢 Work Model: Remote-First with Regional Collaboration
💼 Employment Type: Full-Time | Permanent
🎖 Career Level: Principal Engineer
🏛 Industry: Financial Technology | Payment Infrastructure | Cloud Engineering | Distributed Systems | Enterprise Banking Technology
Position Summary
A world-class fintech innovation programme is seeking a Principal Cloud-Native Payments Platform Engineer to architect, build, and optimise highly resilient payment infrastructure supporting enterprise-scale financial services across the Gulf region.
This leadership role combines advanced cloud engineering, distributed systems design, infrastructure automation, and platform reliability to deliver secure, high-performance payment environments capable of processing millions of digital transactions with exceptional scalability and availability.
Key Responsibilities
Platform Engineering
- Design cloud-native payment infrastructure.
- Develop enterprise-grade distributed systems.
- Optimise transaction processing performance.
- Build resilient API-driven payment platforms.
Infrastructure Excellence
- Automate infrastructure deployment.
- Improve observability and monitoring.
- Enhance disaster recovery capabilities.
- Strengthen enterprise cybersecurity controls.
Engineering Leadership
- Mentor senior software and infrastructure engineers.
- Lead architecture governance.
- Conduct technical design reviews.
- Drive platform modernisation initiatives.
Innovation
- Evaluate emerging cloud technologies.
- Improve engineering productivity.
- Introduce platform automation strategies.
- Support enterprise digital transformation.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related engineering discipline.
- Minimum 10–15 years of experience in cloud engineering, fintech infrastructure, payment technologies, or enterprise software architecture.
- Proven expertise designing highly available financial platforms.
- Strong technical leadership and mentoring capabilities.
Technology Stack
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Terraform
- Go
- Java
- Python
- Kafka
- Redis
- PostgreSQL
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- GitHub Actions
- Infrastructure as Code
Compensation & Benefits
- Premium tax-free salary package
- Annual executive performance bonus
- Housing allowance
- Comprehensive family medical insurance
- Flexible remote-first work model
- Sponsored global technical certifications
- International engineering summits
- Annual return airfare
- Leadership succession programme
- Outstanding long-term career growth within a globally recognised fintech ecosystem
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