Staff Infrastructure Engineer - Remote

Overview

Join Polar as a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate the foundation that powers our systems, ensuring world-class availability, reliability, and trust.

In Short

• Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure systems.
• Define standards and best practices for infrastructure.
• Lead reliability engineering practices including SLOs and incident response.
• Drive observability through metrics, tracing, and logging.
• Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines for maximum developer velocity.
• Improve security and compliance across production systems.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to design scalable systems.
• Mentor backend engineers in infrastructure contributions.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure or backend engineering.
• Experience as the first dedicated infra hire.
• Proven track record in designing high-availability systems.
• Deep experience with cloud platforms and infrastructure-as-code.
• Strong background in observability and incident management.
• Collaborative mindset for designing maintainable systems.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.

Benefits

• Work with a talented engineering-led team.
• Shape the future of software businesses.
• Focus on high-velocity shipping.
• Fully remote work environment.