Raydar
Staff Infrastructure Engineer
$200K–$260K
Palo Alto, California · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
About the job
Own and improve production cloud infrastructure, database operations, reliability, performance, and cost while advising on infrastructure choices as the platform scales.
What you'll do
- Design and evolve AWS cloud architecture and operate production databases, including sizing, replication, and recovery.
- Set reliability standards and improve the performance and cost efficiency of live infrastructure.
- Advise the team on early choices of languages and databases.
What they ask for
- Deep AWS expertise.
- Hands-on experience tuning and operating PostgreSQL in production.
- Experience building cloud infrastructure from scratch by provisioning resources directly.
- Proven results improving response times or spend in running environments, supporting time-sensitive workloads; daily use of AI coding tools in infrastructure work or willingness to learn them.
Nice to have
- Experience reworking a live system's design to handle growth without downtime.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
Pay
USD 200,000 to 260,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
AWS, PostgreSQL, CI/CD
AI focus
Use AI coding tools in infrastructure work daily, or be willing to learn them.
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