Remote Principal Infrastructure Engineer Jobs
Remote principal infrastructure engineer jobs are open across the U.S. at a growing range of remote-first firms and distributed engineering teams, with strong demand in cloud-native software companies, fintech, and enterprise SaaS. Employers hiring remotely right now include GitHub, Zeta Global, and Aledade. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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WHO WE ARE
Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA) is the AI-Powered Marketing Cloud that leverages advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and trillions of consumer signals to make it easier for marketers to acquire, grow, and retain customers more efficiently. Through the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP), our vision is to make sophisticated marketing simple by unifying identity, intelligence, and omnichannel activation into a single platform – powered by one of the industry’s largest proprietary databases and AI. Our enterprise customers across multiple verticals are empowered to personalize experiences with consumers at an individual level across every channel, delivering better results for marketing programs. Zeta was founded in 2007 by David A. Steinberg and John Sculley and is headquartered in New York City with offices around the world. To learn more, go to www.zetaglobal.com.
Role Overview
This is a hands-on Principal Infrastructure Security opportunity within the DevSecOps practice that strengthens security across our primarily AWS-based infrastructure and software delivery. Partner with AppSec and InfoSec to prevent issues and respond effectively when they arise. This is a player-coach role: set strategy while staying close to the technical work.
What You'll Do
- Define and execute a risk-based DevSecOps roadmap; establish ownership, metrics, escalation paths, and a plan to grow the team.
- Implement preventive AWS controls for identity, networking, encryption, secrets/key management, and cloud configuration; ensure security-relevant activity is logged for monitoring, investigation, and audit.
- Embed security into IaC, CI/CD, containers/orchestration, and software supply chains (SCA, secrets scanning, artifact integrity/signing, SBOMs where appropriate), including automated pipeline controls (SAST, IaC/container scanning, policy-as-code).
- Partner with AppSec and InfoSec on security testing, policy, risk, audit evidence, and incident response.
- Triage and prioritize vulnerabilities by exposure, exploitability, and business impact; coordinate remediation, track exceptions, and support investigation, containment, recovery, and post-incident improvement.
What We're Looking For
Required qualifications
- 10+ years combined experience in software, platform/DevOps, and security engineering; 3+ years as a technical lead.
- Experience leading cross-functional security or infrastructure initiatives and influencing engineering, DevOps/platform, AppSec, and InfoSec teams.
- Hands-on AWS security and IAM (least privilege, service identities, privileged access, encryption, networking/security boundaries); experience automating controls with scripting, IaC, CI/CD, and policy-as-code.
- Experience securing delivery pipelines end to end (IaC, CI/CD, containers, dependencies/artifacts, secrets).
- Experience prioritizing vulnerabilities by risk and establishing ownership, escalation, exception, and remediation workflows.
- Experience in security incident investigation, containment, recovery, and post-incident improvement; ability to communicate risk and tradeoffs to leadership.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience building a security/DevSecOps practice and hiring, developing, or managing engineers.
- Kubernetes/container security; software supply chain and secure SDLC practices; security observability/detection partnership with InfoSec/SOC.
- Experience selecting security tools, managing vendors and budgets, and measuring control coverage, risk reduction, and remediation progress.
- Familiarity with public-company or regulated audit controls (e.g., SOX, SOC 2, ISO 27001).
BENEFITS & PERKS
- Unlimited PTO
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Employee Equity
- Employee Discounts, Virtual Wellness Classes, and Pet Insurance and more!!
SALARY RANGE
The salary range for this role is $220,000 - $240,000, depending on location and experience.
PEOPLE & CULTURE AT ZETA
Zeta considers applicants for employment without regard to, and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual’s sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a veteran, or national or ethnic origin; nor does Zeta discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.
We’re committed to building a workplace culture of trust and belonging, so everyone feels invited to bring their whole selves to work. We provide a forum for employees to celebrate, support, and advocate for one another. Learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion here: https://zetaglobal.com/blog/a-look-into-zetas-ergs/
ZETA IN THE NEWS!
https://zetaglobal.com/press/?cat=press-releases
#LI-TS1
WHO WE ARE
Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA) is the AI-Powered Marketing Cloud that leverages advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and trillions of consumer signals to make it easier for marketers to acquire, grow, and retain customers more efficiently. Through the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP), our vision is to make sophisticated marketing simple by unifying identity, intelligence, and omnichannel activation into a single platform – powered by one of the industry’s largest proprietary databases and AI. Our enterprise customers across multiple verticals are empowered to personalize experiences with consumers at an individual level across every channel, delivering better results for marketing programs. Zeta was founded in 2007 by David A. Steinberg and John Sculley and is headquartered in New York City with offices around the world. To learn more, go to www.zetaglobal.com.
Role Overview
This is a hands-on Principal Infrastructure Security opportunity within the DevSecOps practice that strengthens security across our primarily AWS-based infrastructure and software delivery. Partner with AppSec and InfoSec to prevent issues and respond effectively when they arise. This is a player-coach role: set strategy while staying close to the technical work.
What You'll Do
- Define and execute a risk-based DevSecOps roadmap; establish ownership, metrics, escalation paths, and a plan to grow the team.
- Implement preventive AWS controls for identity, networking, encryption, secrets/key management, and cloud configuration; ensure security-relevant activity is logged for monitoring, investigation, and audit.
- Embed security into IaC, CI/CD, containers/orchestration, and software supply chains (SCA, secrets scanning, artifact integrity/signing, SBOMs where appropriate), including automated pipeline controls (SAST, IaC/container scanning, policy-as-code).
- Partner with AppSec and InfoSec on security testing, policy, risk, audit evidence, and incident response.
- Triage and prioritize vulnerabilities by exposure, exploitability, and business impact; coordinate remediation, track exceptions, and support investigation, containment, recovery, and post-incident improvement.
What We're Looking For
Required qualifications
- 10+ years combined experience in software, platform/DevOps, and security engineering; 3+ years as a technical lead.
- Experience leading cross-functional security or infrastructure initiatives and influencing engineering, DevOps/platform, AppSec, and InfoSec teams.
- Hands-on AWS security and IAM (least privilege, service identities, privileged access, encryption, networking/security boundaries); experience automating controls with scripting, IaC, CI/CD, and policy-as-code.
- Experience securing delivery pipelines end to end (IaC, CI/CD, containers, dependencies/artifacts, secrets).
- Experience prioritizing vulnerabilities by risk and establishing ownership, escalation, exception, and remediation workflows.
- Experience in security incident investigation, containment, recovery, and post-incident improvement; ability to communicate risk and tradeoffs to leadership.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience building a security/DevSecOps practice and hiring, developing, or managing engineers.
- Kubernetes/container security; software supply chain and secure SDLC practices; security observability/detection partnership with InfoSec/SOC.
- Experience selecting security tools, managing vendors and budgets, and measuring control coverage, risk reduction, and remediation progress.
- Familiarity with public-company or regulated audit controls (e.g., SOX, SOC 2, ISO 27001).
BENEFITS & PERKS
- Unlimited PTO
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Employee Equity
- Employee Discounts, Virtual Wellness Classes, and Pet Insurance and more!!
SALARY RANGE
The salary range for this role is $220,000 - $240,000, depending on location and experience.
PEOPLE & CULTURE AT ZETA
Zeta considers applicants for employment without regard to, and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual’s sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a veteran, or national or ethnic origin; nor does Zeta discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.
We’re committed to building a workplace culture of trust and belonging, so everyone feels invited to bring their whole selves to work. We provide a forum for employees to celebrate, support, and advocate for one another. Learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion here: https://zetaglobal.com/blog/a-look-into-zetas-ergs/
ZETA IN THE NEWS!
https://zetaglobal.com/press/?cat=press-releases
#LI-TS1
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Consulting & Professional Services
- Healthcare & Medical Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote principal infrastructure engineer jobs.
- 7 or more years of experience designing and operating large-scale infrastructure systems
- Deep expertise with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure at an enterprise scale
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools, particularly Terraform or Pulumi
- Experience with container orchestration using Kubernetes in production environments
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical direction and mentor senior engineers
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Remote Principal Infrastructure Engineer Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote principal infrastructure engineer openings from across the U.S. in one place. Search the current roles, find the ones that match your stack and seniority level, and apply directly without sorting through non-remote listings mixed in.
Demonstrate async communication before the interview
Remote principal infrastructure engineer hiring teams look for written clarity above almost everything else. Lead with well-structured cover notes, link to documented runbooks or architecture decision records, and treat every written exchange in the process as a sample of how you'll communicate on a distributed team.
Make your infrastructure work publicly visible
Remote employers can't walk a whiteboard with you in advance, so a public GitHub repo, a documented personal lab architecture, or open-source contributions to Terraform modules or Kubernetes tooling gives reviewers concrete evidence of your skill level before the first call.
Prepare for infrastructure design interviews over video
Remote principal infrastructure engineer interviews often involve live system design sessions on a shared whiteboard tool like Excalidraw or Miro. Practice explaining cloud architecture decisions, failure modes, and trade-offs in real time over video, since you won't have an in-room whiteboard to fall back on.
Remote Principal Infrastructure Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote principal infrastructure engineer job?
Target remote-first companies and distributed engineering teams, since they're built to onboard and retain senior infrastructure engineers without an office anchor. Remote employers screen heavily for async written communication, self-direction on ambiguous problems, and deep hands-on experience with cloud platforms, infrastructure-as-code tooling, and observability stacks. A public GitHub presence, documented architecture decisions, or open-source infrastructure contributions give you a concrete edge over candidates without a visible technical record.
Which companies hire remote principal infrastructure engineers?
Companies hiring remote principal infrastructure engineers right now include GitHub, Zeta Global, and Aledade, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These tend to be remote-first software companies, cloud infrastructure vendors, fintech platforms, and distributed enterprise teams that rely on senior infrastructure expertise to operate reliably at scale without centralized offices.
Can you get a remote principal infrastructure engineer job with no experience?
Yes, but remote principal-level roles are among the hardest to land without a proven record, because companies expect you to operate independently from day one with minimal oversight. Entry paths that help include contributing to open-source infrastructure projects, building and documenting personal lab environments, and targeting smaller remote-first startups that may carry the title at a lower experience threshold than large enterprises.
Do you need a degree for remote principal infrastructure engineer jobs?
Not always. Remote employers at this seniority level weigh demonstrated infrastructure expertise, production system ownership, and architectural judgment far more heavily than a formal credential. Candidates without a degree who can show deep hands-on experience with cloud platforms, networking, security hardening, and large-scale reliability work are competitive, particularly at remote-first companies and startups that evaluate candidates on output over credentials.
Which industries hire the most remote principal infrastructure engineers?
Most remote principal infrastructure engineer openings sit in Consulting & Professional Services and Healthcare & Medical Services, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors invest heavily in distributed engineering teams that need senior infrastructure expertise to keep globally accessible systems reliable, scalable, and secure without depending on on-site staff.
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