Staff DevOps Engineer (Remote)

About the role

Clara is a Latin American payment platform serving more than 50,000 businesses, and is hiring a Staff DevOps Engineer for a fully remote position. The role leads the Internal Developer Platform, FinOps strategy, Kubernetes operations and event-driven infrastructure, while advising development teams on secure, scalable infrastructure.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the design, adoption and continuous improvement of the Internal Developer Platform, standardizing CI/CD pipelines to shorten cycle time.
• Design and implement FinOps strategy across AWS and other tools, finding cost savings without compromising reliability.
• Operate and evolve the Kubernetes platform on Amazon EKS for multi-country production workloads (Mexico, Colombia, Brazil).
• Support and troubleshoot the Kafka/MSK-based event-driven architecture used across microservices.
• Build and integrate MCP-based or other AI solutions to automate log analysis and speed up root cause analysis.
• Advise teams on secure infrastructure design, help mitigate technical debt in legacy systems and support architectural reviews.
• Maintain Least Privilege IAM models and strengthen the Secure Software Development Lifecycle with secure base images and hardened pipelines.
• Lead technical compliance for audits, certifications such as ISO 27001, fintech regulations and enterprise RFPs, and set up multi-account, multi-region backups.
• Define Infrastructure as Code, take part in on-call rotations and improve MTTD/MTTR through monitoring and alerting.
• Mentor developers adopting internal tools such as CLIs and container platforms.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
• 5+ years in DevOps, Platform Engineering or SRE, ideally in fintech or regulated environments.
• Strong multi-account, multi-region AWS experience (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM or similar).
• Production experience with Kubernetes on Amazon EKS and with Apache Kafka / Amazon MSK.
• Experience building Internal Developer Platforms and CI/CD standardization (GitHub Actions, self-hosted runners or similar).
• Observability and incident management (Datadog or similar) and DORA metrics.
• Knowledge of cloud security, SSDLC and compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001, PCI-DSS or regional fintech rules.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code.
• Native Spanish and intermediate-advanced English.

Required skills

• Ruby, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java; PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis.
• Java/Spring Boot microservices on Kubernetes (EKS) with Kafka/MSK.
• Applying AI/LLMs to operational tasks (log analysis, MCPs, agents) is a plus.

What we offer

• Competitive salary and stock options (ESOP) from day one.
• An annual learning budget and accelerated development paths.
• Remote-first work, with in-person ramp-up and occasional team events.