Raydar
Staff Infrastructure Engineer
$230K–$280K
New York, New York · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
About the job
Lead hands-on infrastructure and reliability work, building secure, scalable cloud systems and setting infrastructure direction across the engineering organization.
What you'll do
- Build security infrastructure and redesign cloud, container orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code architecture for growth.
- Own reliability and observability practices, including service level objectives, alerting, incident response, and postmortems.
- Write production-quality code and automation, and collaborate with engineering leadership and the platform team on technical direction.
What they ask for
- Software engineering background that moved into platform or infrastructure work; SRE or DevOps experience is acceptable if focused on building.
- Hands-on production experience with Terraform and Kubernetes, including Docker and Helm; experience managing a few to a couple hundred Kubernetes clusters.
- Track record of building and scaling infrastructure from zero to one or from one to ten.
- Working knowledge of information security, experience at a high-growth startup, and ability to work on-site in New York 4 to 5 days a week.
Nice to have
- Programming background in at least one current, widely used language.
- Exposure to monitoring and telemetry tooling; familiarity with AWS.
Pay
USD 230,000 to 280,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, AWS
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