Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Senior Infrastructure EngineerApplecart is the leading technology company that C-suites rely on to reach business-critical decision makers. The most important decisions are made by the hardest people to reach and influence. Historically, C-suite leaders have lacked the tools to reach the stakeholders who matter most to their business. The C-suites of hundreds of Fortune 500 companies, major agencies, trade associations, nonprofits, and governments use Applecart to put their best content in front of business-critical decision makers and those they trust — from policymakers and investors to CEOs, key employees, members of the media and more. Decision makers are informed by what they read, learn from advisors, hear from colleagues, and discuss with family and friends. To break through to them, you must reach them through the only channel that really moves them: those they know and trust. Applecart's platform uses publicly available data to map billions of social relationships between nearly every American adult and enable clients to deliver content directly to decision makers and those who matter most to them.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 DoDesign and build networking and application infrastructure that provide high levels of scalability, reliability, and performance, while balancing security, maintainability, and operational excellencePartner with product and application teams to provide guidance and best practices around scalability, reliability, and performance of our productions networking, infrastructure, and softwareCraft solid and clearly explained designs, playbooks, and documentation, for consumption by teammates and the larger engineering organizationImprove operational efficiency through automation and deployment or development of new toolsBe proactive in performance & availability monitoring; provide remediations for systemic issuesIngest requirements, scope work, produce estimates and help define deliverables with project timelinesWork as a team on escalations, resolving critical issues that impact our high SLA production systemsExperiences and Capabilities You Bring:You have 5+ years of professional software development experienceYou have mastered development for the cloud, leveraging a variety of AWS and Data Engineering services (e.g. Databricks, Snowflake)You excel at infrastructure-as-codeYou understand computer networking conceptsYou have practical knowledge of security, data privacy and permission managementYou have experience with monitoring tools, including logging and alertingYou are adept at troubleshooting and know incident response best practicesYou value strong DevOps and are continually improving the developer experience and CICDYou are a natural collaborator, always keen to help your team membersYou are an excellent technical communicatorThis 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.A few facts about us:Applecart's platform has been used by hundreds of industry-leading clients spanning Fortune 500 companies like Blackstone and Intuit, leading nonprofit organizations like the Environmental Defense Fund, and top-tier advertising and communications agencies like Teneo, FGS, Weber Shandwick, and OMD.Applecart is growing quickly — over the last 4 years, we've increased our revenue by 10X, grown our headcount by almost 5X, and we're cashflow positive.Our senior leadership team includes two members of the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Marketing and Advertising, the former Head of Product at Moat, Oracle's online ad measurement platform, a former senior White House advisor, early sales and talent leaders from Google and Twitter, two of the Democratic Party's most successful pollsters and strategists, and alums of top-tier organizations like Bain & Company, Amazon and Simpson Thacher.Applecart raised a $100M Series C from Blackstone's tech growth fund at the end of 2025. The company's other investors include Bain & Company, global sports, entertainment and marketing giant Endeavor, KKR Co-Founder Henry Kravis, entrepreneur Chris Burch, a founder of Palantir, senior engineering leaders at Twitter and Yelp, former Fortune 50 and advertising agency CEOs, and a number of well-known venture capitalists. Ari Emanuel, CEO of TKO and Executive Chairman of WME, Wayne Berman, Blackstone's Head of Global Government Affairs, and Risa Heller, CEO of HELLER, serve on our board.Our work has been featured on Morning Joe on MSNBC, BloombergTV, and The Colbert Report, and in Axios, Semafor, BusinessWeek, the Associated Press, Forbes, the Washington Post, and Politico, among many others.