Staff Software Engineer – Platform Engineering

Overview

Location : Poland. Bolt specializes in democratizing commerce and empowering retailers with a scalable, secure, and reliable platform. This is a fully remote position based in Poland; applications from outside Poland will not be considered. This is a contract-to-hire opportunity with the option to convert to full-time after 3–6 months.

Your role at Bolt

As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will lead foundational work that enables every engineering team at Bolt to ship fast, securely, and reliably. You will architect cloud-native infrastructure, improve developer experience and reliability, and collaborate across product, security, compliance, and infrastructure to scale the platform with the business. You will treat infrastructure as a product, mentor senior engineers, and influence system-wide standards.

What you will be doing

• Designing and evolving Bolt’s Kubernetes-based platform and GitOps infrastructure
• Driving developer experience improvements across CI / CD, secrets management, and observability
• Implementing scalable, secure systems for networking, identity, and service-to-service communication
• Building shared platform tooling that is resilient and easy to adopt
• Supporting critical compliance efforts including PCI-DSS and SOC2
• Partnering with SDEs to improve incident response, SLOs, and reliability metrics
• Collaborating cross-functionally to accelerate product velocity and reduce cognitive load
• Mentoring other engineers on infrastructure design, reliability, and security best practices
• Leading cross-org platform initiatives with clear communication and ownership
• Documenting, sharing, and evangelizing platform standards and practices

What would set you up for success

What would set you apart

Application and benefits

Equal Opportunity

Bolt is an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity and expression, genetic information, pregnancy and related conditions, veteran status or any other status protected by law.

We value a diverse workforce and strive to reflect the population we serve.

Important notes

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