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
8+ years of experience in infrastructure or platform engineering rolesDeep expertise with Kubernetes, Helm, and infrastructure-as-code tooling like TerraformStrong software engineering skills, ideally in Go or PythonExperience building CI / CD systems and improving developer workflowsClear understanding of cloud networking, service mesh, and zero-trust design patternsHands-on experience with observability tools and setting SLOs (e.g., Datadog)Ability to lead architectural design and cross-team technical projectsTrack record of mentoring senior engineers and influencing infrastructure maturityWhat would set you apart
Experience implementing and maintaining compliance controls in a cloud-native environmentContributions to an open-source platform or SRE toolingExperience building shared internal developer platforms as productsExpertise in managing multi-account AWS environments with security boundariesProactive documentation, teaching, and platform evangelism practicesComfort working in a startup or fast-paced environmentExperience working on breaking down MonolithsApplication and benefits
Important Application requirement : all applicants must download the Bolt Super App before their interview. No app = no interview.Flat monthly compensation : PLN39,583 - PLN41,666 / month (all-in, no benefits)Full-time conversion includes RSUs and benefitsBenefits upon successful conversion : PTO, paid holidays, floating holidays, birthday off; paid parental leave; competitive pay; virtual and in-person team and company eventsEqual 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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