Infrastructure Software Engineer

About the company

Our client is a fast-growing technology company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own the reliability, scalability and correctness of a transaction-processing platform and its supporting infrastructure. You will work across system design, deployment pipelines and monitoring, reasoning from first principles as usage grows many times over.

What you'll do

• Own the core transaction-processing systems end to end, including ledger accuracy and reconciliation.
• Keep critical services reliable, correct and able to scale as usage grows significantly.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and monitoring for production systems.
• Design systems that combine many third-party vendors and understand how each component fits together.
• Prioritize tests and engineering trade-offs sensibly in a fast-moving environment.

Requirements

What we're looking for

• At least 2 years of experience in distributed systems engineering.
• Strong system design skills, with a deep and holistic view of complex multi-vendor architectures.
• Experience with high data throughput workloads and some exposure to security.
• A habit of reasoning from first principles rather than rigidly applying past solutions.
• A strong sense of reliability and correctness under pressure.
• High agency and autonomy, comfortable in a flat, hands-on team.
• Comfortable using AI tools productively without depending on them.
• No prior payments or fintech background is required.

Bonus points

• Experience with fast scaling at a growth-stage company.
• Background on infrastructure teams at large cloud, trading or consumer technology companies.
• Experience leading high-throughput distributed systems.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

Base salary

USD 150,000 to 210,000 per year

• Equity
• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Life insurance
• Health FSA
• Retirement plan

Location and work model

• San Francisco, CA, United States
• On-site, in office
• Full-time