Lead Backend Engineer - Scale Live Services & Cloud Infra

raydar; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Raydar in San Francisco, CA, is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to lead sizable, open-ended engineering efforts from early planning through launch. You will build, test, and release features, and design test environments that mirror external web applications.

You'll keep production reliable by handling incidents and expanding job orchestration and cloud infrastructure as workload grows, while coaching junior engineers on the team.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of engineering experience.
• Runs live services in production from design through release.
• Strong server-side and AWS cloud-infrastructure experience.
• Experience at infrastructure or developer-tools company.
• Able to work independently on sizeable open-ended projects.
• Aspires to mentor and guide other developers.

Responsibilities

• Lead large engineering projects from planning through launch.
• Build test environments mirroring external web applications.
• Maintain production reliability by incident response and monitoring.
• Expand job orchestration and cloud infrastructure as workload grows.
• Coach junior engineers in your area of the product.

Skills

Server-side engineering

Cloud infrastructure

Independent work

Mentoring junior engineers

Education

B.S. in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Distributed systems

Job description

Raydar in San Francisco, CA, is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to lead sizable, open-ended engineering efforts from early planning through launch. You will build, test, and release features, and design test environments that mirror external web applications.

You'll keep production reliable by handling incidents and expanding job orchestration and cloud infrastructure as workload grows, while coaching junior engineers on the team.