We're looking for Site Reliability Engineers to work on our production infrastructure. Radar is a high-throughput, data intensive application handling 1 billion+ API calls per day. Over the past year, Radar has been used from over 100M devices worldwide.
We run a multi-availability zone architecture and a major initiative is to enhance our deployment to be multi-region.
We monitor production with CloudWatch, grafana, Pingdom and PagerDuty.
- Engineers choose what AI tools they use, Claude being the most popular.
- All code changes are reviewed by an Engineer knowledgeable in that area. Claude and Copilot also review all PRs.
Most of our engineering team are former technical co-founders or former Radar interns from schools like Waterloo and CMU. Most engineers at Radar fit one of two molds, technically: either Staff level expertise in one stack, or Multi-Stack at any level. We say Multi-Stack because "Full-Stack" has the connotation of "Frontend and Backend", but Radar Engineers might also work on Mobile or Data engineering.
Not that you need to be an expert in all of those, but a desire to learn, jump around to different stacks and get things done is the important part.
We care a lot about shipping fast and talking to customers. We're committed to our product vision of full-stack location infrastructure, but we also know that customer feedback is a treasure map to gold. Even though Slack is the brain of our company, working together in-person in our NYC HQ is the fastest way for us to get things done.
We meet on Mondays to plan out work for the week in small groups and use Linear for planning. All projects are run by an Engineering lead, an executive and a Go-to-Market lead. Engineers figure out what to build, talk to customers, talk to prospects, help close them, get them live and make them successful.
One of the hardest and most valuable practices we have is Walk A Mile - which is shorthand for putting yourself in the user's shoes - but also for literally walking a mile and dogfooding the Radar SDK, because you can't create location infrastructure behind a desk - you have see how the device behaves in the real world.
To us, a week is a long time, and we expect to ship big things every week.
- Engineers choose what AI tools they use, Claude and Cursor being the two most popular.
- All code changes are reviewed by an Engineer knowledgeable in that area. Cursor and CoPilot also review all PRs.
- There is a range of how much engineers use AI. Some use it heavily, others less so.
- Work on core Radar infrastructure using Terraform all deployed to AWS via EKS
- Work on critical company-level initiatives, for example, 99.99+% availability, multi-region deployment, and cloud cost-saving activities
- Be part of the on-call rotation (one week rotation every 1-2 months)
- Have experience managing a production AWS environment via Terraform
- Have experience with high availability multi-region production infrastructure running on Kubernetes
- Have experience managing large sharded Mongo clusters with heavy read-write workloads
- Be interested in talking to customers or prospects and making them successful
- Have experience with high throughput data intensive applications
- Dai Shi https://www.linkedin.com/in/shidai/, Senior Staff SRE
- Our Engineering, Customer Success, Sales Engineering and Sales teams
In addition to cash compensation, Radar offers full-time employees a competitive equity plan with stock option grants. This is a meaningful ownership stake in the company that we provide to our employees as we build a category-defining company together.
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