Raydar
Backend Software Engineer
$180K–$240K
San Francisco, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 31, 2026
- Experience
- 2 to 4 years of engineering experience.
- Education
- A computer science degree from a highly ranked school is a plus; candidates with an outstanding background may be considered without one.
About the job
Lead backend engineering projects from planning through launch, operate production services, and expand orchestration and cloud infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Write design proposals, gather feedback, and build, test, and release software.
- Drive large projects end to end, including creating test environments that mirror external web applications.
- Respond to production incidents, monitor alerts, expand job orchestration and cloud infrastructure, and coach junior engineers.
What they ask for
- Experience running live production services from design through release, including after-hours incident duty.
- Ability to independently take sizable, open-ended efforts from scoping to launch.
- Solid server-side and cloud infrastructure grounding on AWS, including distributed architectures, workload scheduling, and designing for scale.
- Prior experience at an infrastructure or developer tools company; an exceptional track record such as rapid promotions or significant side projects.
Nice to have
- Experience with browser automation or LLM-based agents.
- Aspiration to guide a product group and develop other developers; a computer science degree from a highly ranked school is a plus.
Pay
USD 180,000 to 240,000 (base salary)
Tools
AWS
AI focus
Bonus experience with LLM-based agents.
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