Applecart

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Applecart$160K — $200K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional software development experience
  • Expertise in cloud development using AWS and data engineering services (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake)
  • Strong proficiency in infrastructure-as-code
  • Solid understanding of computer networking concepts
  • Practical knowledge of security, data privacy, and permission management
  • Experience with monitoring tools, including logging and alerting
  • Thorough understanding of troubleshooting and incident response best practices

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable and reliable infrastructure and networking solutions
  • Collaborate with product teams to enhance performance and reliability
  • Create thorough designs, playbooks, and documentation for engineering teams
  • Automate processes and develop new operational tools
  • Monitor performance and availability; provide solutions for systemic issues
  • Gather requirements, estimate efforts, and define project timelines
  • Resolve critical issues impacting high SLA production systems

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model (remote and in-office)
  • Dynamic growth with significant career advancement opportunities
  • Opportunity to work with a diverse and experienced leadership team
  • Engagement in cutting-edge technologies and methodologies
  • Exposure to high-level clients across industries
Full Job Description
We are hiring a Senior Engineer, Infrastructure in our New York office.

About the Role:

As a Senior Engineer, you will focus on providing engineering teams with user-centric, reliable platforms that enable teams to safely operate their software with minimal overhead. Along with engineering and maintaining reliability, performance, and agility across multiple engineering platforms and technologies, you will also be a part of a support organization dedicated to delivering a frictionless development experience to Engineering teams. Your work will span cloud infrastructure, observability, infrastructure-as-code, application deployment strategy, and security. You will join a hybrid-remote team of skilled and collaborative software engineers dedicated to the continuous delivery of business value.

What You'll Do
  • Design and build networking and application infrastructure that provide high levels of scalability, reliability, and performance, while balancing security, maintainability, and operational excellence
  • Partner with product and application teams to provide guidance and best practices around scalability, reliability, and performance of our productions networking, infrastructure, and software
  • Craft solid and clearly explained designs, playbooks, and documentation, for consumption by teammates and the larger engineering organization
  • Improve operational efficiency through automation and deployment or development of new tools
  • Be proactive in performance & availability monitoring; provide remediations for systemic issues
  • Ingest requirements, scope work, produce estimates and help define deliverables with project timelines
  • Work as a team on escalations, resolving critical issues that impact our high SLA production systems

Experiences and Capabilities You Bring:
  • You have 5+ years of professional software development experience
  • You have mastered development for the cloud, leveraging a variety of AWS and Data Engineering services (e.g. Databricks, Snowflake)
  • You excel at infrastructure-as-code
  • You understand computer networking concepts
  • You have practical knowledge of security, data privacy and permission management
  • You have experience with monitoring tools, including logging and alerting
  • You are adept at troubleshooting and know incident response best practices
  • You value strong DevOps and are continually improving the developer experience and CICD
  • You are a natural collaborator, always keen to help your team members
  • You are an excellent technical communicator

This is a hybrid role. Work from home on Monday and Friday and in Applecart's New York City office Tuesday through Thursday.

Relocation assistance is not available for this position. Candidates must be based in or willing to relocate to the area independently.

Compensation:

Our compensation package consists of three components: (i) a base salary, (ii) annual cash bonus, and (iii) generous equity compensation.

The base salary range for this role is between $160,000 - 200,000, based on the candidate's experience and skills relative to the requirements listed above. The salary range provided is exclusive of discretionary annual cash bonus and equity compensation. The salary range provided for this role is specific to candidates located in the New York City area.

About Applecart

Applecart is a technology-driven political strategy and advertising agency that specializes in audience targeting and data-driven messaging. The company uses proprietary technology to identify and engage with key audiences across multiple platforms, including television, digital, and social media. Applecart is headquartered in New York City and was founded in 2013 by veterans of the Obama 2012 campaign.
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50 employees
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2013

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