Platform Engineering
Polar · Engineering · Senior · 1mo ago
Open to candidates across Europe, North America.
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Open to candidates across Europe, North America.
“U.S. / Europe”
- Async-first
- The listing doesn't promise async-first working.
- Contractor / B2B
- No mention of hiring international contractors or invoicing.
- Global stipend
- No home office or equipment budget mentioned.
- Annual retreat
- No company-paid get-togethers mentioned.
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About the role
Platform engineers at Polar work across infrastructure, backend services, and application layers to keep critical billing, metering, and financial systems resilient and performant. You will be responsible for designing abstractions, improving cloud infrastructure, streamlining developer velocity, and ensuring financial data integrity and platform reliability as Polar scales.
What you'll do
- Design and evolve distributed systems that remain performant, resilient, and highly available as traffic grows.
- Improve cloud infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud environments using pragmatic abstractions.
- Enhance observability, debugging, deployments, and incident response tooling to ensure safe production operations.
- Build abstractions, primitives, and automation that reduce operational toil for the entire engineering organization.
- Translate financial and regulatory requirements into auditable technical systems with strict data integrity.
What you bring
- Strong backend and systems engineering experience with distributed systems and operating production cloud infrastructure at scale.
- Deep expertise in relational databases, SQL, data modeling, query optimization, and data integrity.
- Pragmatic engineering judgment across infrastructure, backend, and application layers.
- End-to-end ownership mindset, from understanding problem requirements to running systems in production.
- Security-minded approach treating access control, auditability, and data security as foundational.
About Polar
Polar is building the modern monetization and billing infrastructure designed for usage-based software, programmable pricing, and AI agents.
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