Staff Infrastructure Engineer

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October 22

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Polar

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Fintech • SaaS • API

Polar is a developer-first payments and billing platform that helps software companies monetize digital products and SaaS with minimal code. It provides APIs and SDKs (Next. js, TypeScript, ingestion libraries) for subscriptions, usage-based and ingestion-based billing (including LLM/token consumption), secure checkouts, customer portals, webhook handling, and global merchant-of-record services that handle taxes and compliance. Polar emphasizes open-source, easy integration, and tooling for billing, customer management, and analytics.

1 - 10 employees

Founded 2022

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

🔌 API

📋 Description

• Own the end-to-end architecture, implementation and maintenance of our infrastructure: design, deployment, scaling, observability, and security • Define standards and best practices for infrastructure across the engineering team • Lead reliability engineering practices: SLOs, on-call, incident response, and postmortems • Drive world-class observability: metrics, tracing, logging, and alerting • Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling to maximize velocity without compromising reliability • Continuously improve security, compliance, and data protection across production systems • Work with engineering team to design scalable, resilient systems for billing and financial operations • Mentor and level up backend engineers to contribute confidently to infrastructure and during on-call rotations

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure, SRE, or backend engineering roles • Comfortable as the first dedicated infra hire. Setting technical direction while executing hands-on • Proven track record designing and operating infrastructure for high-availability, high-security, mission-critical systems • Deep experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or similar) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.) • Strong background in observability, reliability, and incident management • Collaborative by default. You design systems so others can contribute and maintain them, not just you • Excellent communicator and technical leader. Able to influence, mentor, and set standards across the team

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Retirement plans • Paid time off • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development • Wellness programs