Joblaze summary

In this role, the senior software engineer will focus on building, testing, and deploying infrastructure software that supports Pilot's product development and business growth. Proficiency in Python, Terraform, and AWS is essential, along with a familiarity with frontend technologies. This position is ideal for experienced engineers who are comfortable working across the full infrastructure stack and have a collaborative mindset. Pilot, a rapidly growing fintech startup, emphasizes employee development and offers a supportive work environment.

Joblaze insights

Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 3, 2026. Last confirmed on Pilot's careers page October 27, 2026.
Salary band is below the typical range for DevOps/SRE roles (median ~$165,000).
Starts above 15% of 81 comparable senior devops/sre roles in United States that list Python we track (median $165,000 across 36 companies). See Python salary trends
Python appears in 63.4% of 175 comparable senior devops/sre roles in United States; ECS appears in 1.1% of 175 comparable senior devops/sre roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Sr. Software Engineer, Infrastructure role remote?: Yes — Pilot lists this as a fully remote position.
What's the salary range?: Pilot lists $133,000–$267,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?: At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Sr. Software Engineer, Infrastructure role.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, AWS CodeDeploy, Docker, ECS, Honeycomb, JavaScript.
What seniority level is this role?: Pilot targets senior candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Sr. Software Engineer, Infrastructure role at Pilot.

From the original posting

The Role

Pilot is a successful startup hiring a senior engineer on our Infrastructure team.

All of our teams have unique charters to collectively build the software, services and systems that enable Pilot to deliver a high-quality experience, profitably, at scale. The Infrastructure team accelerates the rest of R&D by providing scalable, efficient, and high-quality building blocks for product development, while also ensuring we can support business growth in a secure and reliable way. The team is responsible for building simple, scalable abstractions and owns the full Infrastructure stack from the AWS infra that our systems run on to the product platform that our product engineers use.

Pilot’s aim is to provide our customers with the same superpowers as large companies with full finance teams — superpowers that include having a deep understanding of financial health of the business, the machinery to constantly improve it, and the predictive abilities to thoughtfully plan for the future. We do this at a fraction of the cost a large company would pay for this, by delivering these capabilities through powerful software.

Pilot’s backend is written in fully typed modern Python, and our frontend is JavaScript, TypeScript, and Vue.js. We use Terraform to manage our production infrastructure, and deploy Docker containers to ECS. AWS CodeDeploy powers our deployments and we rely on Honeycomb for our monitoring and Postgres as our database.

We're looking for senior infra engineers who are generalists comfortable working across the full infrastructure stack, with a product platform bent and full stack familiarity.

Key Responsibilities

Building, testing and deploying software in a continuous manner (we deploy daily or more often).
Creating and contributing to technical specs and testing/rollout plans.
Working with internal customers and stakeholders to ensure we’re solving the right problems.
Mentoring and sponsoring your teammates to help them grow.
Working across teams to shape the future of engineering at Pilot.
Supporting your software and services as required.

About you

Even if you don’t have experience with the specific technologies in our stack, we’d love to talk to you! Our requirements are:

5+ years of experience as a software engineer
Experience with Python in production
Experience with common infrastructure tooling such as Terraform, AWS
Familiarity with the frontend ecosystem and frontend infrastructure tools
Able to work collaboratively across functions
Strong written, verbal, and technical communication skills
Able to write well-structured, well-tested, and maintainable code
Demonstrated ability to mentor and teach others
This position is only available for remote employment in the United States in the following states: CA, GA, NY, NC, TN, TX, and WA

About Pilot

The base pay range target for the role seniority described in this job description is $133,000 - $267,000 in most remote locations, and between $166,000 - $267,000 in San Francisco, CA and New York City, NY. Final offer amounts depend on multiple factors such as candidate experience and expertise, geographic location, total compensation, and market data. In addition to cash pay, full-time regular positions are eligible for equity, 401(k), health benefits, and other benefits; some of these benefits may be available for part-time or temporary positions.

As part of Pilot’s commitment to fair and transparent remote hiring, Pilot uses light identity verification steps, such as briefly waving on camera and/or recording interviews, to confirm that candidates are representing themselves. For some roles, we may also invite finalists to our San Francisco office for onsite interviews. By clicking “Submit Application” below you consent to our recording of interviews with you if your application goes to the interviews stage.

Standard company text repeated across Pilot's postings is omitted here.

Sr. Software Engineer, Infrastructure

The Role

Key Responsibilities

About you

About Pilot

Similar positions