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Radar LabsRadar LabsNew York, NY

Engineering Manager, Platform

Lead and mentor a distributed Platform team building scalable, highly available infrastructure, developer platforms, and data systems for a high-throughput geolocation service processing 1B+ API calls daily. Requires generalist engineering experience at high-growth startups, system design expertise, and customer focus.

200k – 300k/yr
On-site5+ YOEEngineering Management

About the role

What you’ll do

  • Manage, grow, and mentor a globally distributed Platform team
  • Lead a team of engineers and provide technical leadership across backend, frontend and mobile tech stacks
  • Work on core Radar technology using TypeScript, Rust, Python and Scala
  • Collaborate with our product engineering and SRE teams to build highly available systems with 99.99%+ monthly uptime
  • Work with product, 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 platform capabilities like IAM, feature flagging, application rate limiting, and more
  • Drive development of our 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
  • Be part of the on-call rotation
  • 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 a day and used on 300MM+ devices
  • Talk to Radar customers and prospects, hear their feedback, incorporate it into your work and make them successful

You should

  • Have a good understanding of coding practices and system design, and be strongly familiar with infrastructure technologies
  • Have experience at a high growth startup and shipped software working at high scale
  • 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

Bonus points if you

  • Are a former technical co-founder
  • Have experience with high throughput data intensive applications

What we offer

  • Competitive salary
  • Meaningful stock options in a fast-growing company
  • 401(k) plan with 4% match
  • New HQ in Flatiron, NYC
  • Top-notch equipment
  • Catered lunches
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance with 100% coverage for employees
  • 12 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Commuter and fitness benefits

Skills

TypeScriptRustPythonScalaKubernetesTerraformAWSMongoDBNode.jsCI/CD

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