Platform Engineer

Polygon Labs; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote first global workforce

Medical, Dental and Vision health insu

Company matching 401k with 3% match

$1,500 Home Office Set Up Allowance

$200 Annual Book Allowance Program

$75 Monthly internet or phone reimburs

Flexible Time Off

Company issued laptop

Egg freezing, mental health, and welln

Job summary

Polygon Labs seeks a hands-on infrastructure engineer to operate production Kubernetes on GKE, manage Pulumi-driven infrastructure, and own GitOps pipelines with ArgoCD. You will work across GCP IAM, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, VPC, Secret Manager and Cloudflare as code, ensuring secure lifecycle and incident responsiveness.

The role emphasizes independent work from defined requirements, reviewing infrastructure PRs, and maintaining observability through Grafana.

Qualifications

• Production experience operating Kubernetes on GKE in infra/platform role.
• Hands-on Pulumi experience (TS/Python) for envs, secrets, config.
• Experience with ArgoCD, GitOps, CI/CD pipelines, and debugging race conditions.
• Strong knowledge of GCP services (IAM, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, VPC, Secret Manager).
• Experience managing Cloudflare Workers/DNS as code, and cleanup of preview envs.
• Own secrets/config across services and prevent cross-service drift.
• Triage and manage production incidents; runbooks and incident.io workflows.

Responsibilities

• Operate production Kubernetes environments on GKE; perform maintenance and reliability improvements.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Pulumi (TS/Python).
• Manage GitOps workflows with ArgoCD and CI/CD pipelines; diagnose race conditions.
• Operate GCP infrastructure (IAM, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, VPC, Secret Manager) and tune Pub/Sub.
• Manage Cloudflare as code (Workers, DNS) and clean up stale preview environments.
• Own secrets/config lifecycle across services; provisioning and rotation policies.
• Respond to production incidents with triage, documentation, runbooks, and incident.io workflows.
• Review infrastructure PRs to ensure safety and readiness.
• Build and maintain Grafana dashboards/alerts; understand Grafana Alloy agent/collector.
• Perform SOC2-driven infrastructure work in regulated environments.
• Read Go and work across TypeScript and Python codebases.
• Availability to work core hours overlapping with the EU day.

Skills

Kubernetes on GKE

Pulumi TS/Python

ArgoCD & GitOps

GCP IAM & Pub/Sub

Cloudflare as code

Secrets lifecycle management

Incident triage

Go/TypeScript/Python

Go/Python code familiarity

EU business hours availability

Tools

Pulumi

ArgoCD

Grafana

incident.io

Job description

About Polygon Labs

Polygon Labs is a global blockchain payments company building and operating infrastructure to move money instantly, reliably, and at internet scale, with the mission to move all money onchain. It is building the Polygon Open Money Stack, an open and integrated stack of services and technologies to instantly and reliably move money anywhere, and put it to work. Its infrastructure has facilitated trillions of dollars in onchain value transfer and supported millions of transactions daily for some of the globe's largest banks, fintechs, enterprises, and consumer applications.

Your Role

You will independently execute defined infrastructure work that keeps Polygon's production systems reliable, secure, and operationally efficient. This role is hands-on and operational, with a focus on cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, observability, incident response, and the secure lifecycle of secrets and configuration across services.

You will work core hours overlapping with the EU business day and contribute as a trusted infrastructure partner, including reviewing and approving infrastructure changes and supporting production systems through incidents and continuous improvement.

Your Responsibilities

• Operate production Kubernetes environments on GKE, including day-to-day cluster operations, troubleshooting, maintenance, and reliability improvements.

• Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Pulumi, including Pulumi ESC for environments, secrets, and configuration, primarily in TypeScript and Python.

• Manage GitOps workflows with ArgoCD and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines, including diagnosing pipeline-level race conditions.

• Operate GCP infrastructure across IAM, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, VPC, and Secret Manager. Tune Pub/Sub subscriptions through settings such as acknowledgement deadlines, dead-letter queue redrive behavior, and backlog alerting.

• Manage Cloudflare entirely as code, including Workers and DNS, and maintain lifecycle cleanup for stale preview environments.

• Own the secrets and configuration lifecycle across services, including provisioning, rotation, naming conventions, and preventing cross-service authentication drift.

• Respond independently to production incidents through triage, escalation, documentation, runbooks, and incident.io workflows.

• Review and approve infrastructure pull requests, helping maintain a high standard for safety, correctness, and operational readiness.

• Build and maintain Grafana dashboards and alerts, with working knowledge of the underlying agent and collector layer, including Grafana Alloy.

• Execute SOC2-driven infrastructure and security work and maintain appropriate separation between regulated or sensitive-data environments.

• Read and contribute to systems involving Go, TypeScript, and Python.

What You'll Need

• Demonstrated production experience operating Kubernetes on GKE in a day-to-day infrastructure or platform engineering capacity.

• Hands-on Pulumi experience, including Pulumi ESC for managing environments, secrets, and configuration, with practical proficiency in both TypeScript and Python.

• Experience with ArgoCD, GitOps workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and debugging pipeline-level race conditions.

• Strong hands-on experience with GCP services including IAM, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, VPC, and Secret Manager, including subscription-level Pub/Sub tuning and alerting.

• Experience managing Cloudflare Workers and DNS as code, including cleaning up stale preview environments.

• Experience owning secrets and configuration across services, including provisioning, rotation, naming conventions, and preventing cross-service authentication drift.

• Demonstrated ability to independently triage and manage production incidents, including escalation, runbooks, and incident.io workflows.

• Ability to execute infrastructure work independently from defined requirements without requiring architecture-level hand-holding.

• Experience reviewing and approving infrastructure changes through pull requests.

• Working knowledge of Grafana dashboards, alerting, and the Grafana Alloy or comparable agent and collector layer.

• Security and compliance literacy, including the ability to execute SOC2-driven infrastructure work and operate effectively in regulated or sensitive-data environments.

• Ability to read Go and work comfortably across TypeScript and Python codebases.

• Availability to work core hours overlapping with the EU business day.

Polygon Labs Perks

The goal of the Polygon Labs total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family.

Our comprehensive compensation plan includes the following benefits for our full time employees:

• Remote first global workforce

• Industry leading Medical, Dental and Vision health insurance*

• Company matching 401k with 3% match*

• $1,500 Home Office Set Up Allowance (life-time max)

• $200 Annual Book Allowance Program

• $75 Monthly internet or phone reimbursement

• Flexible Time Off

• Company issued laptop

• Egg freezing, mental health, and employee wellness benefits

*In certain countries medical, dental and vision is fully covered for employees & their dependents. This is country and plan specific.

*401k is for United States employees only

Polygon Labs is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. Polygon Labs is committed to treating all people in a way that allows them to maintain their dignity and independence. We believe in integration and equal opportunity. Accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process and applicants with a disability may request to be accommodated throughout the recruitment process. We will work with all applicants to accommodate their individual accessibility needs.

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