About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own the application-level code that operates a fleet of long-running cloud environments, splitting time between backend development and infrastructure work. Join a small, high-output team tackling a problem with few established patterns, shipping on a weekly cadence.
What you'll do
- Build application services that provision, update, monitor and secure long-running virtual machines and containers.
- Help the fleet of environments scale many times over in a short period.
- Create dependable internal building blocks for asynchronous messaging and job processing that product engineers can use.
- Evolve infrastructure-as-code practices and set conventions other engineers follow.
- Troubleshoot operating system, networking, storage and access-control issues in production.
- Collaborate in a small, cross-functional team with high ownership and quick delivery cycles.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- 6+ years of software engineering experience.
- Built or contributed to core infrastructure at an early-stage startup in the AI space.
- Currently writes production application code as a software engineer, rather than working purely in DevOps or SRE.
- Expertise with infrastructure-as-code tooling and containerized workloads.
- Deep experience with a major cloud provider.
- Clear communication skills in English.
- Based in North America or Western Europe.
Bonus points
- Experience managing isolated per-customer environments at scale.
- Founder or founding engineer experience.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 250,000 to 325,000 per year
- Equity
- Health coverage
- Paid time off
- Work-from-home and wellness stipends
Location and work model
- Remote (Canada or US)
- Full-time