About the job
About Radar
Radar stands at the forefront of geolocation technology, offering cutting-edge geofencing SDKs, maps APIs, and AI-driven solutions tailored for marketing, fraud detection, and operational excellence.
Why Join Radar?
- Collaborate with some of the most respected companies globally, ranging from innovative startups to established Fortune 500 giants.
- Experience significant scale with over 1 billion API calls processed daily from hundreds of millions of devices.
- Benefit from robust resources, having secured $85.5 million in funding from top-tier investors like Accel and Insight Partners.
- Thrive in a high-performance culture, surrounded by ambitious and entrepreneurial colleagues.
- Enjoy our newly relocated office in the vibrant Flatiron district of Manhattan, NYC.
- Be part of a team recognized as one of the top 10 best workplaces in NYC by Crain's.
Despite our impressive growth, we are just getting started, and we need your expertise!
About the Role
We are seeking skilled Site Reliability Engineers to enhance our production infrastructure. Radar is a high-throughput, data-intensive application that manages over 1 billion API calls per day and supports usage from over 100 million devices globally. We operate within a multi-availability zone architecture and are actively working towards expanding our deployment capabilities to a multi-region setup.
Technology Stack:
Our infrastructure is managed using Terraform, and we deploy to AWS via EKS. We utilize MongoDB on Atlas, implement CI and deployments through CircleCI, and monitor production with tools like CloudWatch, Grafana, Pingdom, and PagerDuty. DNS management is handled by CloudFlare. Most engineering team members participate in the on-call rotation. Our primary server languages include TypeScript and Rust, while our data pipelines are powered by Airflow and Scala Spark. Additionally, we proudly sponsor OpenStreetMaps, MapLibre, and OpenAddresses.
Team Dynamics:
Our engineering team comprises former technical co-founders and exceptional interns from renowned institutions like Waterloo and CMU. Engineers at Radar typically fit one of two profiles: staff-level expertise in a specific stack or multi-stack proficiency across various technologies.

