Backend Engineer, Geo
Radar
New York, new york
About the role
We're looking for Backend Engineers to work on our geocoding and routing infrastructure. HorizonDB, our next-gen proprietary geospatial database written in Rust, powers our geocoding and text search workloads. HorizonDB can process 2000 requests per second per core with a p50 latency of 1ms. Over the past year, the Radar SDK has been installed on over 100M devices worldwide and our steady state traffic is 10,000 qps.
The stack:
HorizonDB is written in Rust using RocksDB, FSTs and Tantivy.
Our data pipelines are written in Airflow and Scala Spark.
We use Terraform to manage our infrastructure.
Most engineers are in the on-call rotation.
We sponsor OpenStreetMaps, MapLibre and OpenAddresses.
How we work:
Most of our engineering team are former technical co-founders or former Radar interns from schools like Waterloo and CMU. Most engineers at...