Platform Engineer Technology company New York $190k to $260k USD base a year Posted yesterday

raydar; New York (NY); On-site; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental and vision coverage

Job summary

raydar is hiring a Platform Engineer to own and build the core backend platform for a data-intensive system in New York. You will oversee high-volume ingestion, large-scale queries, and performance tuning on a fast-moving team, collaborating with engineering leadership.

The role requires strong backend engineering skills (Python or similar) and a track record of improving speed, uptime, and capacity for heavy data workloads. On-site five days a week.

Qualifications

• 4–10 years of server-side or low-level software experience.
• Strong CS fundamentals across system architecture, databases and scaling.
• Proficient in Python or another high-performance language.
• Willingness to work on-site five days a week in New York.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the core backend platform for high-volume data processing.
• Own infrastructure decisions and the technical roadmap.
• Partner with product engineers and leadership to ship scalable features.
• 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 with benchmarks, query plans and monitoring.
• Use AI coding tools to speed up benchmarking, monitoring, incident debugging and development.

Skills

Backend engineering

Python

System architecture

Databases

Performance optimization

Tools

AI coding tools

Benchmarking

Job description

# Platform EngineerTechnology company* LocationNew York* TypeFull-time* Posted30 October 2026Apply for this roleThe role, as published## About the companyOur client is a technology company.## The roleRaydar 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 planPay$190k to $260kUSD base a year