Founding Infrastructure

Spur

$150K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Deep expertise in scaling systems for reliability and fault-tolerance
  • Proficient with Docker, Kubernetes, Azure (or equivalent), Redis, Terraform, AWS, and PostGres
  • Strong analytical skills to assess customer and product requirements
  • 5+ years experience in designing and operating at-scale infrastructure
  • Ability to work independently with high autonomy
  • Driven and passionate about impactful work

Responsibilities

  • Build and scale core infrastructure for browser and web agents
  • Design and maintain clusters, CI/CD, and observability practices
  • Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to deliver solutions
  • Analyze customer requirements and communicate technical trade-offs

Benefits

  • Daily lunch, snacks, and more in-office options
  • High-quality medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Unlimited PTO for recharging
  • Spur swag for employees
  • Free Equinox or wellness gym membership
  • Collaborative office environment in New York City
Full Job Description
Overview

As our Founding Infra/Backend Engineer, you'll architect the backbone of Spur's core platform-define, build, and scale mission-critical infrastructure powering our agents. You will orchestrate fleets of browsers, emulators, simulators, and agents in the cloud and optimize them at massive scale. You'll work directly with the founders, solve frontier infrastructure problems with real customer impact, and set the gold standard across our stack.

What You'll Do
  • Build and scale core infrastructure to run and launch thousands of browser and web agents every day.
  • Design, implement, and maintain our clusters, CI/CD, and observability practices.
  • Rapidly iterate with product, engineering, and founders to deliver high-impact solutions.
  • Analyze complex customer and product requirements and clearly communicate trade-offs between different technical approaches.
Requirements
  • Deep expertise in scaling systems and building processes around reliability, observability, and fault-tolerance.
  • Excellence in Docker, Kubernetes, Azure (or equivalent), Redis, Terraform, Containerization, AWS, PostGres, and Helm.
  • Ability to analyze complex customer and product requirements and clearly communicate trade-offs between different technical approaches.
  • Understand how infrastructure decisions directly impact product performance and customer experience.
  • 5+ years designing, shipping, and operating at-scale infrastructure.
  • High autonomy and demonstrated ability to drive projects independently.
  • Ambitious, driven, and passionate about doing great work with great people.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience working with mobile emulators, Chrome images, or previous DevOps work for testing stacks.
  • Proven success building and scaling infrastructure from 0 to 1.
  • Experience working with Celery and Prometheus.
Bonus Points
  • Experience with distributed task queues, performance/scalability optimization.
  • Previous experience impacting small teams and scaling infrastructure from 0 to 1.
Benefits at Spur
  • Daily lunch, snacks, and more available in the office (you help choose!).
  • High-quality medical, dental, and vision coverage options, flexible to your needs.
  • Unlimited PTO (we believe recharging is essential).
  • Spur swag.
  • Free Equinox or any wellness gym of your choice.
  • A collaborative office environment in New York City.

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