Radar
Senior / Staff Platform Engineer
New York · Staff+ · Full-time
H1B sponsorship available$200k-$300kDetected 13 days ago
TypeScriptPythonRustScalaReactReact NativeiOSAndroidNode.jsFull-Stack DevelopmentMongoDBRedisAWSKubernetesSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringProduct StrategyCustomer SuccessSensorsTest Automation
About the role
- This role can either be in our NYC HQ or remote in the US.
- Most of our engineering team are former technical co-founders or former Radar interns from schools like Waterloo and CMU.
- Most engineers at Radar fit one of two molds, technically: either Staff level expertise in one stack, or "Multi-Stack" at any level.
Responsibilities
- Build highly available systems with 99.99%+ monthly uptime
- Work with SRE and data teams to enable self-serve capabilities, including build/test/deploy infrastructure, observability improvements, data pipeline investments, and automation.
- Build and support core product capabilities like IAM, feature flagging, application rate limiting, and more.
- Own internal development platform, including supporting our server, frontend, mobile, and desktop frameworks, and integrating safe AI-enabled development practices throughout our SDLC.
- Help integrate security and compliance practices into every stage of the development lifecycle, from design to deployment.
- This is a meaningful ownership stake in the company we provide to our employees as we build a category-defining company.
Nice to have
- Are a former technical co-founder
- Have worked on a high throughput, high growth SaaS application
- Have worked on geospatial infrastructure
Skills
- The API layer is a Node.js + TypeScript app.
- Everything is deployed to AWS via Kubernetes on EKS using Terraform.
- Most engineers are in the on-call rotation.
- Engineers choose what AI tools they use, Claude and Codex being the most popular.
- There is a range of how much engineers use AI. Most use it daily if not weekly.
Compensation
- For candidates based in the United States, the base salary range for this full-time position is between $200,000 - $300,000/year with an opportunity for performance bonuses and incentives.
- In addition to cash compensation, Radar offers full-time employees stock option grants under its equity plan.
- Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Meaningful stock options in a fast-growing company
- Health, dental, and vision insurance with 100% coverage for employees
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- Commuter and fitness benefits
Company info
- Think of yourself as a generalist engineer first, not tied to any particular stack
- Are interested in talking to customers or prospects and making them successful
- Are deeply curious about how things work, and have the tenacity to sit with hard problems and power through them
- Tim Julien https://www.linkedin.com/in/timjulien/, CTO
- Leo Kim https://www.linkedin.com/in/leokim/, VP Platform
- Our customers and prospects
- Our Customer Success, Sales Engineering, and Sales teams
- We care a lot about shipping fast and talking to customers.
- Even though Slack is the brain of our company, working together in-person in our NYC HQ is the fastest way for us to get things done.
- We are excited about what AI can do, but we also recognize the risks and don't compromise our coding standards.
- Talk to Radar customers and prospects, hear their feedback, incorporate it into your work and make them successful
Equal opportunity
- We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
Visa & Work Authorization
- We sponsor OpenStreetMaps, MapLibre, and OpenAddresses.
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