# Platform Engineer

> Raydar · New York, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-30

**Salary:** USD 190,000–260,000

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

About the company

Our client is a technology company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own and build the core backend platform for a data-intensive system, covering high-volume ingestion, large-scale querying and performance tuning. The role carries full ownership of infrastructure decisions and the technical roadmap, working directly with engineering leadership on a fast-moving team.

What you'll do

\- Design and build the core backend platform for high-volume data processing.

\- Own infrastructure and data platform work, setting priorities and the technical roadmap.

\- Partner with product engineers and technical leadership to ship features that scale.

\- Build services that handle very large data throughput and real-time ingestion.

\- Lead the design of large-scale data models and query layers for fast analysis.

\- Profile and tune analytical and transactional databases using benchmarks, query plans and monitoring.

\- Use AI coding tools to speed up benchmarking, monitoring, incident debugging and development.

## Requirements

What we're looking for

\- Roughly four to ten years of building server-side or low-level software systems.

\- Demonstrated results in raising the speed, uptime and capacity of heavy data workloads.

\- Strong computer science fundamentals across system architecture, databases and scaling.

\- Strong backend engineering skills in Python or another performant language.

\- Able to work on-site five days a week from the New York office in a fast-moving environment.

Bonus points

\- Hands-on experience running large-scale analytical databases, relational databases or streaming systems.

\- Formal technical training, or equivalent hands-on experience.

## Benefits

Compensation and benefits

\- Base salary: $190K to $260K per year

\- Equity

\- Health, dental and vision coverage

\- Retirement plan

Location and work model

\- New York, NY, United States

\- On-site, 5 days a week in the office

\- Full-time

## Apply

[Apply at Raydar](https://apply.workable.com/raydar/j/F0A555BA3A/apply)

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