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That's where you come in.\nAbout the role:\nWe're looking for Platform Engineers to help us build, operate, and secure Radar’s infrastructure, developer platform, and data systems in order to make Radar the most reliable and trusted location platform in the world. Your focus will be in the application layer, but you will also help connect application and infrastructure development through automated tooling and workflows. 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.\nHow we work:\nMost 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.\nWe 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.\nTo us, a week is a long time, and we expect to ship big things every week.\nThe stack:\nThe API layer is a Node.js + TypeScript app.\n\nWe ship SDKs for iOS, Android, React Native,and more.\n\nOur main backend service is a geospatial database written in Rust that we call HorizonDB.\n\nWe use MongoDB, S3/Athena, Redis, and Airflow.\n\nEverything is deployed to AWS via Kubernetes on EKS using Terraform .\n\nWe use Terraform to manage our infrastructure.\n\nWe deploy everything to AWS via EKS.\n\nWe use MongoDB deployed to Atlas.\n\nWe do CI and deployments via CircleCI.\n\nWe monitor production with CloudWatch, Grafana, Pingdom and PagerDuty.\n\nMost engineers are in the on-call rotation.\n\nWe sponsor OpenStreetMaps, MapLibre and OpenAddresses.\n\nHow we use AI:\nEngineers choose what AI tools they use, Claude and Codex being the most popular.\n\nWe're actively building Claude skills - for example we've taught it how to debug HorizonDB, our geospatial database.\n\nAll code changes are reviewed by an Engineer knowledgeable in that area. Claude and Codex also review all PRs.\n\nThere is a range of how much engineers use AI. Most use it daily if not weekly.\n\nWe are excited about what AI can do, but we also recognize the risks and don't compromise our coding standards.\n\nThe hiring process:\nAfter a call with our Technical Recruiter, you'll do several technical Zoom calls with members of our engineering team: code screen, coding round, and system design round. If those go well we'll invite you to our NYC HQ for a final round interview. You'll meet one of our co-founders, someone from outside engineering, and meet more people from Radar. We'll go into more depth about how we work to see if there is a match.\nWhat you’ll do:\nWork on core Radar technology using TypeScript, Rust, Python and Scala.\n\nCollaborate with our product engineering and SRE teams to build highly available systems with 99.99%+ monthly uptime.\n\nWork with product, SRE, and data teams to enable self-serve capabilities, including build/test/deploy infrastructure, observability improvements, data pipeline investments, and automation.\n\nBuild and support core platform capabilities like IAM, feature flagging, application rate limiting, and more.\n\nDrive development, including supporting our server, frontend, mobile, and desktop frameworks, and integrating safe AI-enabled development practices throughout our SDLC.\n\nWith QA, enable test automation and coverage for developers throughout our application, data, and infrastructure stack.\n\nHelp integrate security and compliance practices into every stage of the development lifecycle, from design to deployment.\n\nHave your work power 1 billion+ API calls a day and used on 300MM+ devices\n\nTalk to Radar customers and prospects, hear their feedback, incorporate it into your work and make them successful\n\nYou should:\nHave a good understanding of coding practices and system design, and be strongly familiar with infrastructure technologies.\n\nHave experience at a high growth startup\n\nThink of yourself as a generalist engineer first, not tied to any particular stack\n\nBe interested in talking to customers or prospects and making them successful\n\nBonus points if you:\nAre a former technical co-founder\n\nHave worked on a high throughput, high growth SaaS application\n\nHave worked on geospatial infrastructure\n\nYou’ll work with:\nTim Julien, CTO\n\nLeo Kim, VP Platform\n\nOur customers and prospects\n\nOur Customer Success, Sales Engineering, and Sales teams\n\nWhat we offer:\nCompetitive salary\n\nMeaningful stock options in a fast-growing company\n\n401(k) plan with 4% match\n\nNew HQ in Flatiron, NYC\n\nTop-notch equipment\n\nCatered lunches\n\nUnlimited PTO\n\nHealth, dental, and vision insurance with 100% coverage for employees\n\n12 weeks of paid parental leave\n\nCommuter and fitness benefits\n\nCompensation:\nFor candidates based in the United States, the base salary range for this full-time position is between $200,000 - $300,000/year with an opportunity for performance bonuses and incentives.\nIn addition to cash compensation, Radar offers full-time employees stock option grants under its equity plan. This is a meaningful ownership stake in the company we provide to our employees as we build a category-defining company.\nOur salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Your exact offer may vary based on market location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.\nWe are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. 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