Senior DevOps Engineer Payments

About Polygon Labs

Polygon Labs is a global blockchain payments company building and operating infrastructure to move money instantly, reliably, and at internet scale, with the mission to move all money onchain. It is building the Polygon Open Money Stack, an open and integrated stack of services and technologies to instantly and reliably move money anywhere, and put it to work. Its infrastructure has facilitated trillions of dollars in onchain value transfer and supported millions of transactions daily for some of the globe's largest banks, fintechs, enterprises, and consumer applications.

Your Role

As a Senior DevOps Engineer Payments, you will play a critical role in designing and building a secure, scalable, and cloud-native foundation for Polygon Labs’ new payments platform. Reporting to the Head of Payments Engineering, you will help bring our vision of on-chain money and the Open Money Stack to life by owning infrastructure decisions from day one.

This is a rare opportunity to build greenfield infrastructure for a highly visible platform at the intersection of finance and decentralized technology. You will join a fast-moving, remote-first team that values collaboration, automation, and thoughtful engineering, working closely with application engineers to ensure the payments platform is reliable, secure, and production-ready at scale.

Your Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure powering Polygon Labs’ payments platform, with an initial focus on Google Cloud Platform.
• Implement and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, emphasizing modularity, reusability, and long-term scalability.
• Partner closely with payments application engineers to define infrastructure requirements and support CI/CD pipelines, observability, and runtime operations.
• Apply security-first principles across networking, compute, and deployment workflows to ensure high availability, integrity, and performance.
• Automate deployment and operational processes to improve reliability and developer experience.
• Establish and evolve infrastructure best practices aligned with site reliability engineering principles.

What You’ll Need

• 6 or more years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure in production environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with infrastructure as code, container orchestration, and CI/CD systems, including Terraform and Kubernetes.
• Professional experience operating workloads on Google Cloud Platform or another major cloud provider such as AWS or Azure.
• Demonstrated ability to design secure, highly available systems and apply site reliability engineering best practices.
• Experience working in fast-paced, product-focused engineering teams with a strong bias toward automation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting production systems that handle financial or other sensitive data.
• Familiarity with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.
• Google Cloud certifications, such as Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer or Cloud Architect.
• Exposure to blockchain infrastructure or decentralized finance systems.
• Strong problem-solving skills and comfort working across functions and disciplines.

Polygon Labs Perks

The goal of the Polygon Labs total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan includes the following benefits for our full time employees:

• 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)
• $75 Monthly internet or phone reimbursement
• Flexible Time Off
• 1 company wide wellness Friday day off per quarter
• Company issued laptop
• Egg freezing, mental health, and employee wellness benefits

*In certain countries medical, dental and vision is fully covered for employees and their dependents. This is country and plan specific. 401k is for United States employees only.

Key skills/competency

• Cloud Infrastructure Design
• Google Cloud Platform GCP
• Terraform Infrastructure as Code
• Kubernetes Container Orchestration
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Site Reliability Engineering SRE
• Security First Principles
• Automation
• Blockchain Decentralized Finance
• Observability Tooling