[Hiring] Platform Engineering @Polar

Role Description

Platform engineering at Polar is about building and evolving the systems that power our product – keeping them fast, resilient and simple as we scale. We’re rethinking how billing works for a world of usage-based software, programmable pricing and AI agents.

• Designing and evolving systems that remain highly available, performant and resilient as traffic and complexity grow.
• Improving our cloud architecture, infrastructure-as-code and environments.
• Improving observability, debugging, deployments and incident response.
• Creating primitives, abstractions and automation that remove operational toil.
• Translating financial and regulatory requirements into robust technical systems.

Qualifications

• Strong technical foundations in backend and systems engineering.
• SQL and data modelling depth with relational databases.
• Pragmatic engineering judgement to reason through complex technical trade-offs.
• Product-minded with an understanding of how engineering decisions affect the product.
• End-to-end owner willing to take responsibility for outcomes.
• Multiplier interested in building abstractions, tooling and automation.
• Security-minded treating security as a fundamental engineering consideration.
• Experience with payments, billing or financial infrastructure is a strong plus.
• Open-source contributions and side projects are valued.

Requirements

• Experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and operating production systems at scale.
• Strong experience with data modelling, query optimization and designing for data integrity and performance.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on complex technical problems.
• Collaborative environment with a focus on engineering excellence.

Company Description

Polar sits in the critical path of global payments, billing and financial workflows. Reliability and correctness matter deeply, but so does our ability to move quickly.