Engineering Manager, Platform

About the role

Radar is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a globally distributed Platform team that builds and operates the core infrastructure, developer platform, and data systems powering over 1 billion API calls per day.

Key responsibilities

• Manage, grow, and mentor a distributed Platform team across backend, frontend and mobile stacks.
• Drive roadmap for highly available, scalable services with 99.99%+ monthly uptime.
• Build core platform capabilities such as IAM, feature flagging, rate limiting, and self‑serve tooling.
• Collaborate with product, SRE and data teams to improve observability, automation and data pipelines.
• Participate in on‑call rotation and embed security and compliance throughout the SDLC.

Required profile

• Strong understanding of coding practices, system design and infrastructure technologies.
• Experience at a high‑growth startup shipping high‑scale software.
• Generalist mindset, comfortable across multiple tech stacks.
• Willingness to engage with customers and incorporate feedback.

Required skills

• Node.js, TypeScript, Rust, Python, Scala
• AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform
• MongoDB, Redis, Airflow, S3, Athena
• CI/CD with CircleCI, monitoring with CloudWatch, Grafana, Pingdom, PagerDuty
• Familiarity with AI‑assisted development tools such as Claude and Codex

What we offer

• Competitive salary and meaningful stock options
• 401(k) with 4% match
• Unlimited PTO, catered lunches, health, dental and vision coverage
• 12 weeks paid parental leave
• New HQ in Flatiron, NYC with top‑notch equipment