Platform Engineering

About the Role

Platform Engineering at Polar 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 – from real-time metering and pricing as code, to more flexible customer identities, giving developers greater control over how they monetize their products. 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. We’re looking for engineers who enjoy working across infrastructure, backend systems and the application layer – from improving foundational systems and shipping new platform primitives to building the tooling and automation that enable the entire engineering team to move faster. We don’t believe in building infrastructure for infrastructure’s sake. We value a pragmatic mindset and sensibility in knowing when to introduce new abstractions and when the simplest solution is the right one. More about Polar and how we work What you could work on Depending on your experience and where you can have the greatest impact, this could include: Keep Polar reliable at scale: Designing and evolving systems that remain highly available, performant and resilient as traffic and complexity grow – identifying bottlenecks, improving critical paths and designing for graceful failure. Evolve our infrastructure: Improving our cloud architecture, infrastructure-as-code and environments – introducing complexity only where it earns its place. Make production safe and easy to operate: Improving observability, debugging, deployments and incident response so engineers can ship confidently, understand what’s happening in production and recover quickly when things go wrong. Build leverage for engineering: Creating primitives, abstractions and automation that remove operati

Requirements & Qualifications

• Strong problem solving foundations, knowledge of modern engineering practices, and interest in technology systems.

Perks & Benefits

• Official mentor support
• verified hiring timeline
• and career progression.