Senior Platform Infrastructure Engineer

Spade

Senior Platform Infrastructure Engineer at Spade working on core infrastructure for fintech services. Focused on cloud services, data pipelines, and observability systems.

Posted 6/10/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $200,000 - $220,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDjangoPostgresPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the systems that keep Spade's core platform fast, reliable, and scalable.
Work across the full infrastructure stack — from the cloud services and data pipelines that power our enrichment APIs, to the developer tooling and observability systems.
Collaborate on our technical vision to build and scale internal infrastructure that engineers and customers love.
Develop and maintain low-latency, massively-scalable infrastructure for data ingestion, reporting, and developer-facing APIs.
Continuously improve our engineering best practices by designing and implementing systems that allow us to expand our platform while maintaining high quality and solid observability.
Debug production issues across all levels of the stack.
Bring a strong collaborative approach to deliver value to customers and internal stakeholders at Spade.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience building and scaling AWS Cloud Infrastructure (ECS/Fargate, RDS Aurora Serverless, Terraform/CDK etc).
Experience with highly scalable networked APIs, Postgres, data pipelines, and async processing
Experience building and scaling with Python and Django
Experience and opinions with implementing effective observability instrumentation and ensuring alerts are timely and actionable
Experience building tools and systems that empower internal developers to deliver business value rapidly
Experience building systems from scratch, making trade-offs, and executing autonomously in early-stage environments
A product mindset and strong problem solving skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and focus on delivering customer value, for internal developers and the customers they build for
A collaborative mindset, fostering a culture of mentorship, shared success, and continuous improvement
Based in the US or Canada. If you're in NYC, this role can be in-office/hybrid as well.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation and equity package
Full medical, dental, and vision benefits for US-based employees
Life & short-term disability insurance
Unlimited PTO
Early exercise program
Extended post-termination exercise period
401K for retirement planning
Hybrid team, with pet-friendly headquarters in NYC
Paid parental leave
Work from home stipend

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Hard Skills & Tools

AWS Cloud InfrastructureECSFargateRDS Aurora ServerlessTerraformCDKPythonDjangoPostgresdata pipelines

Soft Skills

collaborative mindsetproblem solvingnavigating ambiguitymentorshipcontinuous improvement