The Distinguished Engineer role at WPC focuses on defining and leading the technical vision for core infrastructure across data services, cloud engineering, and traffic engineering. This position is a platform-defining authority responsible for ensuring the integrity and reliability of financial data systems at a global scale. The role emphasizes first-principles engineering leadership and requires collaboration with various teams to influence architecture and set standards. This is not an operations management role but a strategic position reporting to the head of Infrastructure Engineering.

• 10+ years of deep expertise across infrastructure engineering, including distributed data systems, cloud-native architecture, and traffic or networking systems at massive scale.
• Proven experience designing and evolving large-scale distributed systems serving millions of users or high-volume transactions.
• Strong foundation in cloud-native and hybrid architectures designed for scalability and resilience, with hands-on experience on AWS or comparable platforms.
• Demonstrated expertise in data platforms, including consistency, durability, replication, and recovery for systems where correctness is critical.
• Experience designing traffic management, load balancing, routing, or edge delivery for high-availability, multi-region systems.
• Experience defining SLO and SLA frameworks and resilience strategies for mission-critical systems.
• Track record of technical leadership, driving alignment and architectural direction across large, complex organizations.
• Experience working with or building regulated or high-trust systems and understanding compliance implications.
• Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts to executive and engineering audiences alike.
• Demonstrated success mentoring and elevating technical talent across global teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 15+ years of experience across engineering including distributed data systems, cloud-native architecture, and traffic or networking systems at massive scale.
• Experience in payment systems, money movement, tokenization, or high volume transaction processing.
• Experience operating active-active or multi-region failover architectures for financial or high-trust workloads.
• Background in service mesh, API gateways, CDN, or edge infrastructure at global scale.
• Experience with streaming data platforms, change data capture, or large-scale data reconciliation.
• Familiarity with compliance-driven infrastructure design in financial ecosystems.
• Experience evolving engineering culture toward measurable reliability, performance, and cost ownership.
• Experience building or evolving shared infrastructure platforms that serve multiple products or business units.

• Define the technical vision for WPC's core infrastructure across data services, cloud engineering, and traffic engineering.
• Influence architecture decisions before code is written and set standards for data durability and request integrity.
• Shape how WPC consumes cloud and edge capacity worldwide.
• Lead the design and evolution of large-scale distributed systems serving millions of users or high-volume transactions.
• Drive alignment and architectural direction across large, complex organizations.
• Mentor and elevate technical talent across global teams.
• Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both executive and engineering audiences.
• Ensure the integrity and reliability of financial data systems at a global scale.

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