Platform Engineer

About the company

Our client is a financial services technology company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Serve as the engineer responsible for the shared technical foundation that a small product engineering group builds on. Emphasis is on dependable, cost-conscious and fast systems, with strong attention to security and compliance expectations.

What you'll do

- Design and run core services and the environments they operate in.

- Create secure, isolated environments where automated AI workloads can run safely.

- Build internal tools that make day-to-day engineering work smoother and quicker.

- Tune speed and spending as traffic and data volumes rise.

- Keep the technical foundation steady as the business grows and takes on new entities.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- A track record of designing and owning shared internal systems or engineering tools at a fast-moving technology company.

- Strong skills in designing server-side software, including APIs, databases and data pipelines.

- Practical experience running workloads in the cloud, using containers and automating releases.

Bonus points

- Experience keeping systems steady through fast expansion or company mergers.

- Background in a regulated sector such as fintech, healthcare or finance.

- Familiarity with sandboxing and safe execution of untrusted code.

- Experience with data warehousing and query tuning.

- Experience building or integrating infrastructure for AI agents.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: USD 200,000 to 300,000 per year

- Equity

Location and work model

- New York, NY, United States

- On-site, 5 days per week in office

- Full-time