Senior Infrastructure Engineer

About Us

Applecart 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 Infrastructure Engineer in our New York office.

About the Role:

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will focus on cross-cutting initiatives providing engineering teams with user-centric, reliable platforms that enable teams to safely operate their software with minimal overhead. Beyond driving technical excellence, reliability, and agility across cloud and core infrastructure platforms, you will architect the platform strategy and operational model that empower engineering teams with a frictionless developer experience. Your work will span cloud infrastructure, observability, infrastructure-as-code, application deployment strategy, and security. 

What You'll Do:

• Architect, implement and maintain networking and application infrastructure that provide high levels of scalability, reliability, and performance, while balancing security, maintainability, and operational excellence.
• Design and lead cross-functional initiatives to continually raise the bar 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 6+ 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 have proven success at leading cross-functional initiatives
• You excel at infrastructure-as-code and object oriented programming
• You understand computer networking concepts
• You have solid practice around security, data privacy and permission management
• You have strong 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- $200,000based 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 3 years, we've increased our bookings by 10X, grown our headcount by 4X, 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, a former CRO of a high-growth tech company with hundreds of millions in ARR, and alums of top-tier organizations like Bain, Amazon and Simpson Thacher.
• Our 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, and Jennifer Fonstad, Owl Capital Managing Partner, serve on our board. 
• Our work has been featured on Morning Joe on MSNBC, BloombergTV and The Colbert Report, and in Axios, BusinessWeek, the Associated Press, Forbes, the Washington Post, and Politico, among many others.