Infrastructure Software Engineer
Raydar
Infrastructure Software Engineer
Raydar
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Raydar · San Francisco, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-01
Salary: USD 150,000–210,000
Workplace: on_site
About the company
Our client is a fast-growing technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own the reliability, scalability and correctness of a transaction-processing platform and its supporting infrastructure. You will work across system design, deployment pipelines and monitoring, reasoning from first principles as usage grows many times over.
What you'll do
- Own the core transaction-processing systems end to end, including ledger accuracy and reconciliation.
- Keep critical services reliable, correct and able to scale as usage grows significantly.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and monitoring for production systems.
- Design systems that combine many third-party vendors and understand how each component fits together.
- Prioritize tests and engineering trade-offs sensibly in a fast-moving environment.
What we're looking for
- At least 2 years of experience in distributed systems engineering.
- Strong system design skills, with a deep and holistic view of complex multi-vendor architectures.
- Experience with high data throughput workloads and some exposure to security.
- A habit of reasoning from first principles rather than rigidly applying past solutions.
- A strong sense of reliability and correctness under pressure.
- High agency and autonomy, comfortable in a flat, hands-on team.
- Comfortable using AI tools productively without depending on them.
- No prior payments or fintech background is required.
Bonus points
- Experience with fast scaling at a growth-stage company.
- Background on infrastructure teams at large cloud, trading or consumer technology companies.
- Experience leading high-throughput distributed systems.
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 150,000 to 210,000 per year
- Equity
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- Life insurance
- Health FSA
- Retirement plan
Location and work model
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- On-site, in 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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