# Platform Engineer (Backend Infrastructure)

Position: Infrastructure Engineer Location: Poland/Europe - Remote Type: This can be structured as a B2B contract or Employment Contract with full benefits Poland B2B Annual Rate: $102,000 - $117,500 depending on experience + stock options Portugal Salary Band: €60,000 - €72,000 depending on experience + stock options Who We Are Focal Systems is the industry leader in retail AI solutions. We are a Silicon Valley-based startup headquartered in San Francisco, with operations in Canada, the UK, multiple EU countries and a tech hub in Poland. We are a Deep Learning-first company. Our mission is to automate and optimize brick-and-mortar retail using deep learning computer vision. Focal Systems has been deployed at scale with some of the top retailers in the world, processing hundreds of millions of images per day across tens of thousands of stores globally. We were recently named Confluent's inaugural Data Streaming Startup of the Year, a recognition of how seriously we take the engineering challenges at the core of our business. We seek smart, creative, and passionate people who want to help build a great and enduring company. What We're Looking For We are looking for a Platform Engine

- **Id**: 4285870
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/focal-systems-platform-engineer-backend-infrastructure>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Poland
- **Countries**: PL
- **Hiring countries**: PL
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T21:12:41Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T21:49:13Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6586
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Stock options
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Computer Vision, Retail & Commerce AI

## Company

- **Id**: 173841
- **Name**: Focal Systems
- **Domain**: focal.systems
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/focal-systems>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 88
- **Open postings**: 10
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.5
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 22
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 102000
- **Max**: 117500
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 117500

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **FastAPI** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **Helm** — Optional: no
- **KEDA** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Mimir** — Optional: no
- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Redis** — Optional: no
- **Sentry** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **CircleCI** — Optional: yes
- **Computer Vision** — Optional: yes
- **Go** — Optional: yes
- **Ray** — Optional: yes
- **Snowflake** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: yes

## Hiring locations

- **Poland** — Iso: PL; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T21:49:13Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 22
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T02:28:24Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 117500
- **Is top pay**: no

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