Platform Engineering

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Polar

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2022

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

🔌 API

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.

📋 Description

• Design and evolve highly available, performant, and resilient systems as traffic and complexity grow • Identify bottlenecks, improve critical paths, and design for graceful failure • Improve cloud architecture, infrastructure-as-code, and engineering environments • Improve observability, debugging, deployments, and incident response • Build primitives, abstractions, and automation that reduce operational toil and help engineering move faster • Translate financial and regulatory requirements into robust technical systems • Build auditability, access control, and data integrity into systems • Work across infrastructure, backend systems, and the application layer • Improve foundational systems and ship new platform primitives

🎯 Requirements

• Senior-level engineering experience combining deep systems thinking with product judgment • Backend and systems engineering experience, including distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and operating production systems at scale • Strong experience with relational databases, data modelling, query optimization, and designing for data integrity and performance • Ability to reason through complex technical trade-offs, anticipate failure modes, and choose maintainable solutions • Ability to work across infrastructure, backend, and application layers • Product-minded approach balancing speed, simplicity, and robustness • Willingness to own outcomes end to end, from problem definition through operation and improvement • Interest in building abstractions, tooling, and automation • Security-minded approach to security, access control, and auditability • Experience with payments, billing, or financial infrastructure is a strong plus • Open-source contributions and side projects are valued • Experience with the listed technology stack: TypeScript, React, Effect, Python, FastAPI, Dramatiq, Postgres, ClickHouse, and AWS