Raydar
Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Platform
$150K–$350K
United States · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026
- Experience
- Seven or more years of software engineering experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Not open to visa sponsorship or transfers; candidates must already have unrestricted U.S. work authorization.
About the job
Build and operate platform infrastructure, developer tools, deployment systems, and reliability foundations that help product engineers ship safely and quickly.
What you'll do
- Own and evolve AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Pulumi.
- Develop internal tooling, TypeScript libraries, shared SDKs, code generation, CLI tools, and reusable frameworks.
- Optimize CI/CD and reliability, including ephemeral environments, observability, autoscaling, and incident response.
What they ask for
- Seven or more years of software engineering experience, including substantial platform, infrastructure, or backend work.
- Strong experience at a high-growth technology startup.
- Proficiency with TypeScript and Node.js, plus recent hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and per-pull-request environments.
- Deep AWS experience; strong Terraform and/or Pulumi skills; experience with service-level objectives, error budgets, incident response, and production observability.
Nice to have
- Buildkite optimization experience.
- Experience building internal platforms or developer tools; experience with Datadog, CloudWatch, Sentry, distributed tracing, or comparable observability systems.
Pay
$150K-$350K USD base salary
Tools
AWS, Terraform, Pulumi, TypeScript, Node.js, Buildkite, Aurora PostgreSQL, Datadog
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