Working at Polar Signals

Hello 👋

We are Polar Signals, a remote first software company founded in 2020. Here you will find out all about how working at Polar Signals is like and what kind of openings we have. Even if we don't have a specific opening, please don't hesitate to contact us: jobs@polarsignals.com.

Mission 🚀

Our mission is to make understanding code accessible to every engineer.

Core values ⚖️

Creative and employee centric work environment
Inclusive over exclusive
Trust, not control
Open information, open decision making
Automation over process

Benefits 💎

Salaries - Open global salary and generous early-employee equity package.
Remote - Free to work from anywhere. We have a strong design-document culture "When in doubt, write it out".
Flexible work schedule - You decide how and when to structure your workday.
20% time - Every Friday you are free to do whatever you want. You can choose to make it a 3 day weekend, or hack on that side project you've been wanting to do.
5 weeks of PTO - We want employees to be well-rested.
Unlimited sick leave - You're sick when you're sick, not on a schedule.
Menstrual leave - We support menstrual leave, when you're in pain, rest, don't work.
Parental leave - We want parent(s) to focus on their child and themselves.
Open Source - We are passionate about open-source and encourage you to contribute on company time.
1 Day a week company meetings - All other days are entirely meeting-free.
2 Company off-sites per year - All-company get-togethers twice a year for work and fun. Previous destinations include Lisbon and Valencia.
Conferences - Budget to attend conferences, and attend any conference that you speak at.
Budget - Educational, fitness, and well-being budget.

Our tech stack 💻

Backend:

Go
gRPC
Kubernetes/GKE
Observability: Parca, Prometheus, Thanos, Jaeger+OpenTelemetry
Hashicorp Vault

Frontend

TypeScript
NextJS
React
Tailwind
gRPC-web
Vercel

Open positions 🌱