- Raydar
- New York, NY
- Full-Time
- 14 days ago
- $200,000–$300,000 / year
Platform Engineer.
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Platform Engineer: our view in 3 lines...
- The Role:This role suits an engineer building the shared technical foundation for a product engineering group at a financial services technology company.
- The Person:The person will run core services and their environments, create isolated environments for automated AI workloads, build internal engineering tools, tune performance and spending, and maintain the foundation as the business grows.
- Requirements:The ideal candidate has experience designing server-side software, including APIs, databases and data pipelines, and running cloud workloads with containers and automated releases.
About the role
About the company
Our client is a financial services technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Serve as the engineer responsible for the shared technical foundation that a small product engineering group builds on. Emphasis is on dependable, cost-conscious and fast systems, with strong attention to security and compliance expectations.
What you'll do
- Design and run core services and the environments they operate in.
- Create secure, isolated environments where automated AI workloads can run safely.
- Build internal tools that make day-to-day engineering work smoother and quicker.
- Tune speed and spending as traffic and data volumes rise.
- Keep the technical foundation steady as the business grows and takes on new entities.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- A track record of designing and owning shared internal systems or engineering tools at a fast-moving technology company.
- Strong skills in designing server-side software, including APIs, databases and data pipelines.
- Practical experience running workloads in the cloud, using containers and automating releases.
Bonus points
- Experience keeping systems steady through fast expansion or company mergers.
- Background in a regulated sector such as fintech, healthcare or finance.
- Familiarity with sandboxing and safe execution of untrusted code.
- Experience with data warehousing and query tuning.
- Experience building or integrating infrastructure for AI agents.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 200,000 to 300,000 per year
- Equity
Location and work model
- New York, NY, United States
- On-site, 5 days per week in office
- Full-time