Raydar
Senior Backend Software Engineer
$200K–$300K
San Francisco, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- At least 4 years of software engineering experience; a meaningful share in backend or infrastructure systems.
About the job
Leads backend and infrastructure work for a high-traffic consumer web platform, improving reliability and performance while building systems for new features.
What you'll do
- Build infrastructure for product features, including recommendation and model training and serving pipelines.
- Own production reliability through monitoring, logging, incident response, and root-cause fixes.
- Improve API and data-layer performance, fault tolerance, and capacity as usage grows.
What they ask for
- At least 4 years of software engineering experience, with meaningful backend or infrastructure experience.
- Experience running significant backend systems in production.
- Strong skills in TypeScript/Node.js and PostgreSQL.
- Able to work on-site 5 days a week.
Nice to have
- Experience with NestJS, Redis, or Kubernetes.
- Background in distributed systems or GPU infrastructure.
Pay
USD 200,000 to 300,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
TypeScript/Node.js, PostgreSQL, NestJS, Redis, Kubernetes
AI focus
Build infrastructure for recommendation and model training and serving pipelines.
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