Platform Engineer

About the company

Our client is a technology company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own and build the core backend platform for a data-intensive system, covering high-volume ingestion, large-scale querying and performance tuning. The role carries full ownership of infrastructure decisions and the technical roadmap, working directly with engineering leadership on a fast-moving team.

What you'll do

- Design and build the core backend platform for high-volume data processing.

- Own infrastructure and data platform work, setting priorities and the technical roadmap.

- Partner with product engineers and technical leadership to ship features that scale.

- Build services that handle very large data throughput and real-time ingestion.

- Lead the design of large-scale data models and query layers for fast analysis.

- Profile and tune analytical and transactional databases using benchmarks, query plans and monitoring.

- Use AI coding tools to speed up benchmarking, monitoring, incident debugging and development.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- Roughly four to ten years of building server-side or low-level software systems.

- Demonstrated results in raising the speed, uptime and capacity of heavy data workloads.

- Strong computer science fundamentals across system architecture, databases and scaling.

- Strong backend engineering skills in Python or another performant language.

- Able to work on-site five days a week from the New York office in a fast-moving environment.

Bonus points

- Hands-on experience running large-scale analytical databases, relational databases or streaming systems.

- Formal technical training, or equivalent hands-on experience.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: $190K to $260K per year

- Equity

- Health, dental and vision coverage

- Retirement plan

Location and work model

- New York, NY, United States

- On-site, 5 days a week in the office

- Full-time