Platform Engineer
Raydar
Platform Engineer
Raydar
AI-powered recruiting agency for tech roles
Raydar · New York, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-30
Salary: USD 190,000–260,000
Workplace: on_site
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.
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
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Raydar is an AI-powered talent acquisition firm that serves tech-focused organizations on a contingency basis, charging client companies only after a successful hire. It uses proprietary AI to identify a large pool of candidates and conducts a short 15-minute AI-driven interview (recorded and transcribed) before human recruiters review materials, provide interview prep, and assist with offers and negotiations. What sets it apart is the blend of automated sourcing and screening with hands-on human oversight and tailored client support. Its goal is to help organizations hire more efficiently by speeding up sourcing while maintaining thorough evaluation and negotiation assistance.
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