Engineering Manager – Platform

Radar

Engineering Manager leading a distributed Platform team to enhance Radar's geolocation services. Collaborating across tech stacks and driving infrastructure improvements for high API performance.

Posted 7/30/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $200,000 - $300,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in managing and mentoring engineering teams while providing technical leadership across diverse technology stacks, including TypeScript, Rust, Python, and Scala. Proficient in building highly available systems and integrating security and compliance practices throughout the development lifecycle.

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Technical LeadershipTypeScript DevelopmentPython ProgrammingInfrastructure TechnologiesHigh Throughput Data Applications

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Hard Skills

TypeScriptRustPythonScalaSystem DesignTest AutomationInfrastructure TechnologiesApplication Rate LimitingFeature FlaggingIAM

Soft Skills

MentoringCustomer EngagementCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

Build/Test/Deploy InfrastructureObservability ToolsData PipelineAutomation ToolsAI-Enabled Development Practices

Industry Keywords

High Growth StartupAPI ManagementSoftware Development LifecycleCompliance PracticesDistributed Systems

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PythonRustScalaSDLCTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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 our 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.
With QA, 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

Requirements

What you’ll need

Have a good understanding of coding practices and system design, and be strongly familiar with infrastructure technologies.
Have 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
Be interested in talking to customers or prospects and making them successful
Bonus points if you:
- Are a former technical co-founder
- Have experience with high throughput data intensive applications

Benefits

Comp & perks

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