Platform Engineer

Polygon Labs

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

Posted 10/30/2026full-timeRemoteMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in operating Kubernetes environments on GKE, managing infrastructure as code with Pulumi, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines. Proficient in GCP services and security compliance, with a strong ability to independently manage production incidents and review infrastructure changes.

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Kubernetes Operations on GKEPulumi Infrastructure as CodeGCP Services ManagementCI/CD Pipeline ManagementIncident Management

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Hard Skills

KubernetesPulumiTypeScriptPythonGCPArgoCDGitOpsGrafanaCloudflareSOC2 Compliance

Soft Skills

Independent Problem SolvingIncident TriageCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

GKEPub/SubCloud SQLVPCSecret ManagerGrafana AlloyDNS Management

Industry Keywords

Infrastructure as CodeProduction Incident ManagementSecurity ComplianceRegulated Environments

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDNSGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesPythonSQLTypeScriptGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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 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 standards for safety, correctness, and operational readiness.
Build and maintain Grafana dashboards and alerts, including working with Grafana Alloy.
Execute SOC2-driven infrastructure and security work and maintain separation between regulated or sensitive-data environments.
Read and contribute to systems involving Go, TypeScript, and Python.
Work as a trusted infrastructure partner during EU business-day core hours.

Requirements

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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