Raydar
Platform Engineer
$190K–$260K
New York, New York · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- Roughly four to ten years of building server-side or low-level software systems.
About the job
Build and own a backend data platform for high-volume ingestion, large-scale querying, and performance tuning.
What you'll do
- Design and build backend services for high-volume, real-time data processing.
- Own infrastructure and data-platform priorities and technical roadmap.
- Design data models and query layers, and profile and tune databases for performance.
What they ask for
- Roughly four to ten years building server-side or low-level software systems.
- Demonstrated results improving the speed, uptime, and capacity of heavy data workloads.
- Strong computer science fundamentals in system architecture, databases, and scaling.
- Strong backend engineering skills in Python or another performant language; able to work on-site five days a week in New York.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with large-scale analytical databases, relational databases, or streaming systems.
- Formal technical training, or equivalent hands-on experience.
Pay
$190K to $260K per year (base salary)
Tools
Python
AI focus
Use AI coding tools to accelerate benchmarking, monitoring, incident debugging, and development.
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