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