Platform Engineer

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