Senior Platform Engineer: Scalable Infra & Billing

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Polar is building the platform that powers real-time payments, pricing and AI agents. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will design and evolve scalable infrastructure, runbooks and primitives that support the whole engineering organisation.

You’ll own reliability, observability and security across cloud environments, reduce toil through automation, and translate financial requirements into auditable, robust systems customers can trust.

Qualifications

• Strong backend and systems engineering foundation.
• Experience with distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.
• Proficiency in SQL data modelling and data integrity.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve scalable infrastructure and primitives.
• Improve observability, deployments and incident response.
• Build tooling and automation to reduce operational toil.
• Translate financial requirements into robust, auditable systems.
• Ensure security and auditability across platforms.

Skills

Backend systems

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Data modelling

SQL

Security-minded

Tools

Postgres

Clickhouse

AWS

Typescript

Python

Job description

Polar is building the platform that powers real-time payments, pricing and AI agents. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will design and evolve scalable infrastructure, runbooks and primitives that support the whole engineering organisation.

You’ll own reliability, observability and security across cloud environments, reduce toil through automation, and translate financial requirements into auditable, robust systems customers can trust.