Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Join Pylon as a Software Engineer to design and maintain cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalability and reliability in a fast-growing startup.
Posted by employer 3 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
AI in the day-to-day
You highly leverage AI for software development and lean on agents and automation to do more with a small team.
Requirements
- Experience
- 3+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Software Engineer for Infrastructure at Pylon is responsible for designing and maintaining the core cloud infrastructure, ensuring it scales effectively while preventing incidents through proactive monitoring and observability. The position requires strong backend or infrastructure engineering experience, particularly with cloud technologies, and familiarity with AI-driven development practices. Ideal candidates will have a startup background and a passion for building reliable systems in dynamic environments. Pylon, a rapidly growing company backed by notable investors, emphasizes a collaborative culture and innovative approaches to customer support.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 3, 2026. Last confirmed on Pylon's careers page October 27, 2026.
- Salary band is in line with the typical range for DevOps/SRE roles (median ~$165,000).
- Starts above 73% of 15 comparable mid devops/sre roles in United States that list AWS we track (median $150,000 across 15 companies). See AWS salary trends
- AWS appears in 29.1% of 127 comparable mid devops/sre roles in United States; Golang appears in 0.8% of 127 comparable mid devops/sre roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Software Engineer, Infrastructure role remote?
- No — this is an on-site role in San Francisco.
- What's the salary range?
- Pylon lists $180,000–$280,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 3 years of relevant experience for this Software Engineer, Infrastructure role.
- Where is the role based?
- Pylon is hiring for this position in San Francisco.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Golang, GraphQL, React.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Pylon targets mid-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Software Engineer, Infrastructure role at Pylon.
From the original posting
What You'll Do
Design and maintain the core infrastructure across our cloud environments — own it end to end, not just keep the lights on.
Prevent incidents before they happen. Build the monitoring, alerting, and observability that catches problems while they're still small.
Make our systems scale. Find the limits before our growth does and engineer past them.
Own developer velocity. Build the CI/CD pipelines and internal tooling that let every engineer here ship faster.
Hunt down performance bottlenecks and speed them up.
Build for an AI-first workflow — lean on agents and automation to do more with a small team.
What We're Looking For
You have 3+ years in backend or infrastructure engineering and strong hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure.
You highly leverage AI for software development and can juggle multiple workstreams at the same time.
You’ve worked at startups previously and navigated ambiguous environments.
You genuinely enjoy building scalable and reliable systems
You have a growth mindset, want to constantly improve, and want to receive feedback.
You're in SF or you're willing to relocate, you love working in-person, and you're serious about joining us to build a culture we'll all love
(Bonus) You have experience with our tech stack (React, Golang, GraphQL, and AWS).
(Bonus) You have experience with building agentic products in production.
Our Perks
🚆 Commuter benefits
🌱 Parental leave
🏝️ 14 company holidays + unlimited PTO
🗺️ Annual offsite
🏋️ Fitness stipend
Team: Currently 100+ and growing!
Additional Job details
The base salary range for this position is $180k - $280k annually.
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