Raydar
Backend Software Engineer
$200K–$250K
San Francisco, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- 3 to 7 years of professional experience; 5 or more years preferred.
About the job
Own and build backend and infrastructure systems, including sandboxed workloads, gateways, and task orchestration, while shipping customer-facing features rapidly.
What you'll do
- Take ownership of core backend services and assume areas currently handled by a senior engineer.
- Build and scale infrastructure for sandboxed workloads, gateways, and task orchestration.
- Ship features quickly, gather customer feedback, and iterate.
What they ask for
- Strong backend and distributed systems fundamentals; experience building production systems from zero to one.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, networking, and containers; solid database skills such as Postgres.
- Track record of autonomous, fast delivery focused on customer impact; clear spoken and written English communication.
- Daily use of coding agents; currently a hands-on individual contributor, with most recent role at a startup.
Nice to have
- Prior experience at a fast-growing early-stage startup.
- Hands-on work with isolated execution environments or API routing layers for automated software; founding engineer experience more than once; working knowledge of everyday developer tools.
Pay
USD 200,000 to 250,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
AWS, Postgres
AI focus
Daily use of coding agents; bonus experience with isolated execution environments or API routing layers for automated software.
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