Staff Infrastructure Engineer

About the company Our client is a fast-growing software company. The role Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead infrastructure and reliability efforts as a hands-on software engineer, strengthening security and scaling cloud systems for rapid growth. Own the reliability practice and set technical direction for infrastructure across the engineering organization. What you'll do - Build out security infrastructure early on to support customers with demanding compliance needs. - Redesign cloud, container orchestration and infrastructure-as-code architecture to handle significant growth in usage and data volume. - Take ownership of reliability and observability, including service level objectives, alerting, incident response and postmortems. - Write production-quality code and automation that reduces repetitive manual work and operational risk. - Work closely with engineering leadership and a small platform team to set infrastructure direction. Requirements What we're looking for - Background as a software engineer who moved into platform or infrastructure work; SRE or DevOps experience is fine if it centered on building rather than maintaining. - Hands-on production experience with Terraform and Kubernetes, including Docker and Helm. - Experience managing Kubernetes environments ranging from a few to a couple hundred clusters. - Track record of building and scaling infrastructure from zero to one or from one to ten. - Working knowledge of information security. - Experience at a high-growth startup. - Ability to work on-site in New York 4 to 5 days a week. Bonus points - Programming background in at least one current, widely used language. - Exposure to monitoring and telemetry tooling for keeping services healthy. - Familiarity with AWS. Benefits Compensation and benefits - Base salary: USD 230,000 to 280,000 per year - Equity - Health, dental and vision coverage - Unlimited paid time off - Parental leave - Retirement plan Location and work model - New York, NY, United States - On-site, 5 days per week in office (4 days possible) - Full-time