Staff Infrastructure Engineer
Raydar
Staff Infrastructure Engineer
Raydar
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Raydar · New York, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-15
Salary: USD 230,000–280,000
Workplace: on_site
About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead infrastructure and reliability efforts as a hands-on software engineer, strengthening security and scaling cloud systems for rapid growth. Own the reliability practice and set technical direction for infrastructure across the engineering organization.
What you'll do
- Build out security infrastructure early on to support customers with demanding compliance needs.
- Redesign cloud, container orchestration and infrastructure-as-code architecture to handle significant growth in usage and data volume.
- Take ownership of reliability and observability, including service level objectives, alerting, incident response and postmortems.
- Write production-quality code and automation that reduces repetitive manual work and operational risk.
- Work closely with engineering leadership and a small platform team to set infrastructure direction.
What we're looking for
- Background as a software engineer who moved into platform or infrastructure work; SRE or DevOps experience is fine if it centered on building rather than maintaining.
- Hands-on production experience with Terraform and Kubernetes, including Docker and Helm.
- Experience managing Kubernetes environments ranging from a few to a couple hundred clusters.
- Track record of building and scaling infrastructure from zero to one or from one to ten.
- Working knowledge of information security.
- Experience at a high-growth startup.
- Ability to work on-site in New York 4 to 5 days a week.
Bonus points
- Programming background in at least one current, widely used language.
- Exposure to monitoring and telemetry tooling for keeping services healthy.
- Familiarity with AWS.
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 230,000 to 280,000 per year
- Equity
- Health, dental and vision coverage
- Unlimited paid time off
- Parental leave
- Retirement plan
Location and work model
- New York, NY, United States
- On-site, 5 days per week in office (4 days possible)
- 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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