Platform Engineer Technology Posted yesterday

# Platform Engineer Technology company
* Location New York
* Type Full-time
* Posted
30 October 2026

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The role, as published## 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.## 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
* Health, dental and vision coverage## Location and work model
* New York, NY, United States
* On-site, 5 days a week in the office
* Full-time## Compensation, as the posting describes it
* ** Base salary:** $190K to $260K per year
* Equity* Retirement plan

Pay $190k to $260kUSD base a year