Infrastructure Engineer – Foundation
- Location
- Palo Alto, New York
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Compensation
- $140k – $250k + equity
- Visa
- No Visa Sponsorship
About this role
The Team
We're looking for Infra Engineers to join our Foundation team. This team keeps the platform stable and the developers productive. We need someone who's seen systems under pressure and knows how to make them reliable – not just "works on my machine" reliable, but "processes millions of dollars in mortgage transactions" reliable.
Your customers aren't borrowers – they're the engineers sitting next to you. When you make deploys faster, monitoring clearer, or incidents rarer, the entire company ships better software. The feedback loop is instant: your teammates will tell you, loudly, when something is great or when something is broken.
What You'll Do
Keep highly available systems highly available. We process mortgage transactions that can't go down. You'll design, monitor, and improve the infrastructure that makes that possible.
Make developers more productive. Slow builds, flaky tests, painful deploys – these are your enemies. You'll build tooling and infrastructure that lets the rest of the team move fast with confidence.
Be a groundskeeper of the codebase. You'll help maintain code quality, teach best practices, and mentor junior engineers. The Foundation team sets the standard for how we build software.
Fight fires and prevent them. When something breaks, you'll help fix it. More importantly, you'll build the systems and practices that keep things from breaking in the first place.
Work with instant feedback. Your customers are your coworkers. They'll tell you what's working and what's not – no surveys, no quarterly reviews, just direct, honest feedback every day.
Tech Stack
AWS (our cloud home)
TypeScript
Graphite (stacked PRs and developer workflow)
Honeycomb (observability)
GitHub Codespaces (development environments)
Temporal.io (workflow orchestration)
SQL (PostgreSQL)
GraphQL
AI-driven development tooling and agentic infrastructure
What happens next
Skip the application pile. I get you in front of the people who decide.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
When the company wants to meet, I get the call on your calendar. You just show up.
Culture & values
The company emphasizes deep technology investments and first-principles thinking rather than following past approaches.
Working at Pylon is presented as a research-like experience where you ship to intelligent, opinionated customers regularly.
The team leans heavily on each other and collaboration is essential when tackling difficult tasks.
The company aims to optimize for quality and speed without requiring performative long hours.
Ownership is encouraged: if you find something broken, you are likely the best person to fix it in a small team.
Employees are encouraged to push their own ideas into action more than at large companies.
The company seeks generalists who are smart, flexible, and enjoy digging into all areas rather than specialists.
Operating in a regulated mortgage space, the company moves fast but cannot break things due to federal and state regulations.
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