About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Hands-on senior individual contributor who designs and delivers core infrastructure software for a large compute environment. Works side by side with technical leadership and a compact group of engineers, with ownership from initial concept through live operation.
What you'll do
- Architect, build and scale infrastructure software that runs across a large pool of physical servers.
- Take charge of difficult storage, networking and scheduling problems as demand and capacity grow quickly.
- Partner with technical leaders and a small team of engineers to solve open-ended infrastructure problems from the ground up.
- Write and tune performance-sensitive code in systems languages, prioritizing speed, correctness and dependability.
- Drive infrastructure initiatives from first design to production rollout, supporting new product capabilities and bigger accounts.
- Use AI coding assistants to speed up delivery and automate parts of the engineering workflow.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- At least 5 years of experience creating and growing distributed software close to the operating system.
- Direct experience with operating-system internals such as kernels, file systems or Linux building blocks, where you built core components yourself instead of stitching together managed cloud services.
- A history of owning substantial distributed systems in a startup or a small team with high autonomy, rather than in a large established company.
- Working knowledge of virtualization technology, such as QEMU or a lightweight hypervisor.
- Experience with distributed storage at significant scale.
- At least 2 years in an early-stage or high-autonomy company, owning a system from start to finish while it grew.
- Strong, practical fluency using AI coding agents in daily development.
- Comfort with ambiguity and with building things from nothing in a fast-moving setting.
- A strong individual contributor who can influence the direction of those around them.
- This is a builder role rather than a DevOps or SRE position.
Bonus points
- Systems programming experience in a language such as Go or Rust.
- Familiarity with configuration management tooling.
- Experience founding or scaling a well-known startup, or a record of publications, patents or conference talks.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 200,000 to 300,000 per year
- Equity
- Health, dental and vision coverage
- Retirement plan with employer match
- Flexible time off
- Paid parental leave
Location and work model
- New York City, New York, United States
- On-site, 5 days per week in the office
- Full-time