# Staff Infrastructure Engineer

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

**Salary:** USD 230,000–280,000

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

About the company

Our client is a fast-growing software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead infrastructure and reliability efforts as a hands-on software engineer, strengthening security and scaling cloud systems for rapid growth. Own the reliability practice and set technical direction for infrastructure across the engineering organization.

What you'll do

\- Build out security infrastructure early on to support customers with demanding compliance needs.

\- Redesign cloud, container orchestration and infrastructure-as-code architecture to handle significant growth in usage and data volume.

\- Take ownership of reliability and observability, including service level objectives, alerting, incident response and postmortems.

\- Write production-quality code and automation that reduces repetitive manual work and operational risk.

\- Work closely with engineering leadership and a small platform team to set infrastructure direction.

## Requirements

What we're looking for

\- Background as a software engineer who moved into platform or infrastructure work; SRE or DevOps experience is fine if it centered on building rather than maintaining.

\- Hands-on production experience with Terraform and Kubernetes, including Docker and Helm.

\- Experience managing Kubernetes environments ranging from a few to a couple hundred 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.

\- Ability to work on-site in New York 4 to 5 days a week.

Bonus points

\- Programming background in at least one current, widely used language.

\- Exposure to monitoring and telemetry tooling for keeping services healthy.

\- Familiarity with AWS.

## Benefits

Compensation and benefits

\- Base salary: USD 230,000 to 280,000 per year

\- Equity

\- Health, dental and vision coverage

\- Unlimited paid time off

\- Parental leave

\- Retirement plan

Location and work model

\- New York, NY, United States

\- On-site, 5 days per week in office (4 days possible)

\- Full-time

## Apply

[Apply at Raydar](https://apply.workable.com/raydar/j/B8CFE3F371/apply)

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