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Platform Engineer

Raydar · New York City · United States

Salary
$180,000–$250,000 per year
Contract
Full time
Occupation
DevOps / Platform Engineer

Posted: 10/20/2026 · Last checked: 10/28/2026

Job description

Quoted in full from Raydar's job posting. Gavroche does not edit it.

About the company

Our client is a fast-growing software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Act as the founding member of a platform function spanning infrastructure, DevOps and security. Partner closely with technical leadership to shape strategy, modernize older systems and create internal tooling, with a path toward managing a team as the engineering group expands.

What you'll do

- Establish the platform function from scratch, defining its processes, policies and tooling.

- Move older infrastructure onto modern cloud systems and reinforce the cloud architecture in the early months.

- Run and streamline the company's security and compliance program, including audit readiness, AI usage policies and incident handling.

- Improve release automation, internal developer tooling and deployment processes so engineers can ship faster.

- Coach leadership on security practices and encourage a security-minded culture across engineering.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- Around 6 or more years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps or security engineering.

- Background building security infrastructure at a B2B SaaS company in a regulated industry, either at a startup or a fast-moving, well-regarded technology company.

- Deep hands-on AWS experience.

- Experience designing CI/CD pipelines and working with monitoring and observability tools.

- Application security expertise, including authentication, data protection and vulnerability management.

- Comfort with ambiguity and a hands-on, high-ownership working style.

Bonus points

- Experience standing up security infrastructure from zero to one.

- Experience running SOC 2 compliance processes in production.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: USD 180,000 to 250,000 per year

- Equity

- Health, dental and vision coverage

- Retirement plan

- Flexible time off

Location and work model

- New York, United States

- On-site, 4 days per week in office

- Full-time

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