About the company
Our client is a technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own and build the core backend platform for a data-intensive system, covering high-volume ingestion, large-scale querying and performance tuning. The role carries full ownership of infrastructure decisions and the technical roadmap, working directly with engineering leadership on a fast-moving team.
What you'll do
- Design and build the core backend platform for high-volume data processing.
- Own infrastructure and data platform work, setting priorities and the technical roadmap.
- Partner with product engineers and technical leadership to ship features that scale.
- Build services that handle very large data throughput and real-time ingestion.
- Lead the design of large-scale data models and query layers for fast analysis.
- Profile and tune analytical and transactional databases using benchmarks, query plans and monitoring.
- Use AI coding tools to speed up benchmarking, monitoring, incident debugging and development.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Roughly four to ten years of building server-side or low-level software systems.
- Demonstrated results in raising the speed, uptime and capacity of heavy data workloads.
- Strong computer science fundamentals across system architecture, databases and scaling.
- Strong backend engineering skills in Python or another performant language.
- Able to work on-site five days a week from the New York office in a fast-moving environment.
Bonus points
- Hands-on experience running large-scale analytical databases, relational databases or streaming systems.
- Formal technical training, or equivalent hands-on experience.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: $190K to $260K per year
- Equity
- Health, dental and vision coverage
- Retirement plan
Location and work model
- New York, NY, United States
- On-site, 5 days a week in the office
- Full-time
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