# Lead Platform Engineer

About the company Our client is a life sciences technology company. The role Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. A senior engineering role that shapes the architecture, security and scaling of a company's central data platform. The engineer works hands-on with production backend, data and distributed systems while setting the technical bar, mentoring engineers and helping build the platform team. It suits an experienced builder who can bring rigor and clear ownership to a growing engineering organization. What you'll do - Set the architecture, security approach and scaling plan for the company's core data platform. - Create the intake paths, service endpoints and persistence components that turn mixed-format inputs into organized records while keeping lineage intact. - Run graph database and vector search services that support combined keyword and semantic retrieval. - Build high-concurrency platform services in Go and Python, including controls on how automated agents write data and how workloads are isolated. - Build protective controls into the core design from day one, spanning inter-service identity, separation between clients, credential handling and d

- **Id**: 4319900
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/raydar-lead-platform-engineer-3>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-14T19:11:51Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-14
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T19:11:51Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2801
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Life insurance, Parental leave, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Biotechnology

## Company

- **Id**: 4478753
- **Name**: Raydar
- **Domain**: raydar.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/raydar-com>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 19
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 23
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 220000
- **Max**: 300000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 300000

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T19:11:51Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 32; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 32 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 52
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.516
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 23
- **Reasons**: conf:0, agency, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T19:51:02Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 300000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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