Software Engineer - DevOps Tooling

Hi there, we are currently looking for a team member to our Developer Productivity team within Digital Enablement.

If you are reading this, you probably already know that Polestar is an electric performance car brand. We work hard to create a unique experience for the customer, owner and driver. The thrill of driving the car, the digital experience of buying, owning and controlling a Polestar require us to push the limits of technology and software development. Sustainability has been there from the beginning and we have set a moonshot goal for climate-neutral cars in 2030. There is an ocean of opportunities in this for talented IT professionals who wants to dive in and make a difference.



About the Developer Productivity team - Digital Enablement Area

The purpose of the team is to enhance agile & technical collaboration for teams working within Polestar. The team handles tools like Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Aha & Miro - with the common denominator to bring people together around collaborative product development. In the hybrid workspace we offer, these capabilities are a glue that connects teams & people. The team is a shared service but also works with stakeholders with very specific needs. The team works with enhancing the capabilities but also with technical agile coaching focusing on helping teams utilize our services in a better way.



About the role

As an Engineer in this team, you will work with several SaaS products, making them fit into the Polestar ecosystem and our way of working, as well as making them compliant with our security policies. The aim is no manual user admin or license provisioning, so you need to have a true interest in automating repetitive tasks. In this role, you will work with both tool configurations but also user support & technical agile coaching for the tools provided.



What you will do

- Tooling configuration to fit Polestar ways of working
- Ensure optimized usage of SaaS tooling
- Collaborate with the Polestar user community
- Implement security & compliance policies
- Refine & estimate stories
- Contribute with continuous improvement ideas for the team backlog




Who you are

- Experience from working with shared services / platform products with high degree of self-service for users
- Tech savvy with interest in DevOps tooling
- Strong collaborator
- Experience of working with modern SaaS technologies supporting a cloud native, agile / DevOps environment
- Excellent listener and strong communication skills




Personal qualities

- Passion to challenge the status quo, find new solutions and drive out of the box ideas - loves and embraces change
- Believes in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust
- Not afraid to “roll up the sleeves” and seeks to go outside the comfort zone to learn - pushes teams to do the same
- Empowers others to fail, learn, and grow
- Experimental mindset to drive innovation
- Great listener who is keen to gather and use input from the team




Polestar - the guiding star

Polestar is an electric performance brand, determined to improve the society we live in by catalyzing the change to sustainable mobility. We are a global team of highly talented individuals who share a passion to change the world. We challenge conventions and we challenge ourselves for the purpose of innovation. We believe innovation is a team effort and that just like each component is critical to the performance of our cars each person working at Polestar is as important to the team and its performance. We work in close collaboration across empowered global teams that don’t settle for anything less than excellence.

At Polestar, the sky is the limit.

Is this you? If you are interested in joining the Polestar family, don't wait with submitting your application. We apply a continuous selection process and the job post will be open until the position is filled.