Platform Engineer

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