Platform Engineer

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.

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.

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