Platform Engineer
Raydar
Platform Engineer
Raydar
AI-powered recruiting agency for tech roles
Raydar · New York, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-15
Salary: USD 200,000–300,000
Workplace: on_site
About the company
Our client is a financial services technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Serve as the engineer responsible for the shared technical foundation that a small product engineering group builds on. Emphasis is on dependable, cost-conscious and fast systems, with strong attention to security and compliance expectations.
What you'll do
- Design and run core services and the environments they operate in.
- Create secure, isolated environments where automated AI workloads can run safely.
- Build internal tools that make day-to-day engineering work smoother and quicker.
- Tune speed and spending as traffic and data volumes rise.
- Keep the technical foundation steady as the business grows and takes on new entities.
What we're looking for
- A track record of designing and owning shared internal systems or engineering tools at a fast-moving technology company.
- Strong skills in designing server-side software, including APIs, databases and data pipelines.
- Practical experience running workloads in the cloud, using containers and automating releases.
Bonus points
- Experience keeping systems steady through fast expansion or company mergers.
- Background in a regulated sector such as fintech, healthcare or finance.
- Familiarity with sandboxing and safe execution of untrusted code.
- Experience with data warehousing and query tuning.
- Experience building or integrating infrastructure for AI agents.
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 200,000 to 300,000 per year
- Equity
Location and work model
- New York, NY, United States
- On-site, 5 days per week 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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