# Platform Engineer

> Raydar · New York, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-15

**Salary:** USD 200,000–300,000

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

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

## Apply

[Apply at Raydar](https://apply.workable.com/raydar/j/174C99BB90/apply)

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