Engineering Manager, Platform
About The Position
Radar is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a distributed Platform team. This role involves building and operating Radar’s infrastructure, developer platform, and data systems to ensure the company is the most reliable and trusted location platform globally. The manager will support the team, drive a roadmap for scalability and high availability, and focus on the application layer while connecting it to infrastructure development through automation. Radar is a high-throughput, data-intensive application handling over 1 billion API calls daily and used on hundreds of millions of devices worldwide.
Requirements
- Good understanding of coding practices and system design
- Strongly familiar with infrastructure technologies
- Experience at a high growth startup and shipped software working at high scale
- Think of yourself as a generalist engineer first, not tied to any particular stack
- Interested in talking to customers or prospects and making them successful
Nice To Haves
- Former technical co-founder
- Experience with high throughput data intensive applications
Responsibilities
- Manage, grow, and mentor a globally distributed Platform team
- Lead a team of engineers and provide technical leadership across backend, frontend and mobile tech stacks
- Work on core Radar technology using TypeScript, Rust, Python and Scala
- Collaborate with product engineering and SRE teams to build highly available systems with 99.99%+ monthly uptime
- Work with product, 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 platform capabilities like IAM, feature flagging, application rate limiting, and more
- Drive development of our internal development platform, including supporting our server, frontend, mobile, and desktop frameworks, and integrating safe AI-enabled development practices throughout our SDLC
- Enable test automation and coverage for developers throughout our application, data, and infrastructure stack
- Be part of the on-call rotation
- Help integrate security and compliance practices into every stage of the development lifecycle, from design to deployment
- Have your work power 1 billion+ API calls a day and used on 300MM+ devices
- Talk to Radar customers and prospects, hear their feedback, incorporate it into your work and make them successful
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Meaningful stock options in a fast-growing company
- 401(k) plan with 4% match
- New HQ in Flatiron, NYC
- Top-notch equipment
- Catered lunches
- Unlimited PTO
- Health, dental, and vision insurance with 100% coverage for employees
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- Commuter and fitness benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
