# Engineering Manager, Platform

**Company:** [Radar Labs](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/radar-labs)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $200k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, Rust, Python, Scala, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, MongoDB, Node.js, CI/CD
**Posted:** 2026-07-30

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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