Senior / Staff Platform Engineer
Build and operate Radar’s high-scale infrastructure, developer platform, and data systems to support 1B daily API calls. Generalist engineer focused on availability, self-serve capabilities, automation, and customer feedback.
About the job
What you’ll do
- Work on core Radar products using TypeScript, Rust, Python and Scala
- 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
- With QA, enable test automation and coverage for developers throughout our application, data, and infrastructure stack
- Help integrate security and compliance practices into every stage of the development lifecycle, from design to deployment
- Have your work power 1 Billion API calls / day
- Talk to Radar customers and prospects, hear their feedback, incorporate it into your work and make them successful
You should
- Think of yourself as a generalist engineer first, not tied to any particular stack
- Be interested in talking to customers or prospects and making them successful
- Be deeply curious about how things work, and have the tenacity to sit with hard problems and power through them
Bonus points if you
- Are a former technical co-founder
- Have worked on a high throughput, high growth SaaS application
- Have worked on geospatial infrastructure
You’ll work with
- Tim Julien, CTO
- Leo Kim, VP Platform
- Our customers and prospects
- Our Customer Success, Sales Engineering, and Sales teams
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.
Skills
TypeScript, Rust, Python, Scala, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, MongoDB, Redis, Airflow
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