Raydar
Senior IT Engineer
$170K–$195K
South San Francisco, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of IT experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in a technical or scientific field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Own and secure IT and network infrastructure across multiple sites, setting up workplaces, administering systems, and helping build an IT team as the company grows.
What you'll do
- Set up new sites and operate and extend the network, including infrastructure automation and inter-site data transfers.
- Administer IT services, onboarding and offboarding, endpoint management, and access controls.
- Lead security and compliance work, partner with leadership, and potentially hire and manage an IT team.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of IT experience, including hands-on setup of physical workplaces or technical sites for a company making tangible products.
- Bachelor's degree in a technical or scientific field, or equivalent experience.
- Practical office networking experience with firewalls, routing, VLANs, and VPNs; endpoint and device lifecycle management; scripting in Python or Bash.
- Mostly startup career history with steady tenure, clear communication, constructive pushback, and ability to work on-site in South San Francisco three days a week.
Nice to have
- Experience as the first IT hire; infrastructure as code and CI/CD experience.
- Ownership of SOC 2 or similar compliance work; interest in people management; home lab or hobby projects.
Pay
USD 170,000 to 195,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, Bash, firewalls, routing, VLANs, VPNs, infrastructure as code, CI/CD
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