Raydar
Senior Platform Software Engineer
$200K–$300K
Palo Alto, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 31, 2026
- Education
- Degree in computer science or another highly technical STEM field from a top university.
About the job
Owns infrastructure, developer tooling, and machine learning operations that help research and engineering teams move software and models from experiments into production.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain infrastructure for research and production, including cloud compute, storage, CI/CD, observability, and security.
- Develop internal tools, automation, shared libraries, and dependable model pipelines.
- Improve build, test, release, and monitoring workflows in collaboration with research and product teams.
What they ask for
- Backend engineering experience with Python or Go, APIs, databases, and distributed systems.
- Working depth in Kubernetes and a major cloud provider.
- Production experience running workloads built on large language models; has built a backend platform from the ground up for an external, customer-facing product.
- Senior or staff-level individual contributor who codes daily and owns an entire system; degree in computer science or another highly technical STEM field from a top university.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with data pipelines, job scheduling, or machine learning experimentation workflows.
- Track record of taking product infrastructure from nothing to substantial scale.
Pay
USD 200,000 to 300,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, Go, Kubernetes, CI/CD
AI focus
Run production workloads built on large language models and create pipelines and services that move models from experiments through testing into live use; work comfortably with AI-assisted engineering.
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative