Platform Engineer Fast-growing software company New York $180k to $250k USD base a year Posted yesterday

Raydar; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental and vision coverage

Equity

Retirement plan

Flexible time off

Job summary

Raydar is partnering with a fast-growing software client in New York to recruit a Platform Engineer. You will establish the platform function from scratch, define processes, policies and tooling, and move legacy infrastructure to modern cloud systems while strengthening the cloud architecture.

Role emphasizes security program leadership, audit readiness, and improving release automation and internal tooling. On-site work four days per week with equity, retirement plan and flexible time off.

Qualifications

• Around 6 or more years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps or security engineering.
• Background building security infrastructure at a B2B SaaS company in a regulated industry, either at a startup or a fast-moving, well-regarded technology company.
• Deep hands-on AWS experience.
• Experience designing CI/CD pipelines and working with monitoring and observability tools.
• Application security expertise, including authentication, data protection and vulnerability management.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a hands-on, high-ownership working style.

Responsibilities

• Establish the platform function from scratch, defining its processes, policies and tooling.
• Move older infrastructure onto modern cloud systems and reinforce the cloud architecture in the early months.
• Run and streamline the company's security and compliance program, including audit readiness, AI usage policies and incident handling.
• Improve release automation, internal developer tooling and deployment processes so engineers can ship faster.
• Coach leadership on security practices and encourage a security-minded culture across engineering.

Skills

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

Security engineering

Observability tools

Job description

# Platform EngineerFast-growing software company* LocationNew York* TypeFull-time* Posted20 October 2026Apply for this roleTalk to us firstYou apply on Workable, where Raydar manages applications.The role, as published## About the companyOur client is a fast-growing software company.## The roleRaydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Act as the founding member of a platform function spanning infrastructure, DevOps and security. Partner closely with technical leadership to shape strategy, modernize older systems and create internal tooling, with a path toward managing a team as the engineering group expands.## What you'll do* **Establish the platform function from scratch**, defining its processes, policies and tooling.* Move older infrastructure onto modern cloud systems and reinforce the cloud architecture in the early months.* **Run and streamline** the company's security and compliance program, including audit readiness, AI usage policies and incident handling.* **Improve release automation**, internal developer tooling and deployment processes so engineers can ship faster.* Coach leadership on security practices and encourage a security-minded culture across engineering.## What we're looking for* Around 6 or more years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps or security engineering.* Background building security infrastructure at a B2B SaaS company in a regulated industry, either at a startup or a fast-moving, well-regarded technology company.* Deep hands-on AWS experience.* Experience designing CI/CD pipelines and working with monitoring and observability tools.* Application security expertise, including authentication, data protection and vulnerability management.* Comfort with ambiguity and a hands-on, high-ownership working style.## Bonus points* Experience standing up security infrastructure from zero to one.* Experience running SOC 2 compliance processes in production.## Benefits* Health, dental and vision coverage## Location and work model* New York, United States* On-site, 4 days per week in office* Full-time## Compensation, as the posting describes it* Equity* Retirement plan* Flexible time offPay$180k to $250kUSD base a year