Senior / Staff Platform Engineer

We're looking for Platform Engineers to help us build and operate Radar’s infrastructure, developer platform, and data systems in order to make Radar the most reliable and trusted location platform in the world. Our daily traffic is 1 Billion API calls / day (15,000 requests / second), so you will be operating at scale in helping our engineers deliver features quickly and at high quality.

This role can either be in our NYC HQ or remote in the US.

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.

To us, a week is a long time, and we expect to ship big things every week.

- We ship SDKs for iOS, Android, React Native, and more https://docs.radar.com/sdk/sdk.

- Our main backend service is a geospatial database written in Rust that we call HorizonDB https://radar.com/blog/high-performance-geocoding-in-rust.

- Everything is deployed to AWS via Kubernetes on EKS using Terraform .

- Work on core Radar products using TypeScript, Rust, Python and Scala

- Build highly available systems with 99.99%+ monthly uptime

- Work with SRE and data teams to enable self-serve capabilities, including build/test/deploy infrastructure, observability improvements, data pipeline investments, and automation.

- Build and support core product capabilities like IAM, feature flagging, application rate limiting, and more.

- Own internal development platform, including supporting our server, frontend, mobile, and desktop frameworks, and integrating safe AI-enabled development practices throughout our SDLC.

- With QA, enable test automation and coverage for developers throughout our application, data, and infrastructure stack.

- Help integrate security and compliance practices into every stage of the development lifecycle, from design to deployment.

- Think of yourself as a generalist engineer first, not tied to any particular stack

- Are deeply curious about how things work, and have the tenacity to sit with hard problems and power through them

- Have worked on a high throughput, high growth SaaS application