Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Pylon Labs, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Commuter benefits

Parental leave

14 company holidays + unlimited PTO

Annual offsite

Lunch, dinner, and snacks at the офис

Job summary

Pylon is seeking an experienced backend or infrastructure engineer to own the cloud platform end-to-end, ensuring reliability, scale, and fast developer velocity. You’ll design and maintain core infrastructure, build observability, and address performance bottlenecks in a high-growth setting.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in backend or infrastructure roles, with cloud experience, a growth mindset, and comfort with AI-driven development.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in backend or infrastructure engineering with strong hands-on cloud infrastructure experience.
• Highly value experience using AI to aid software development and the ability to juggle multiple workstreams.
• Experience at startups in ambiguous environments and a track record of building scalable and reliable systems.
• Growth mindset with eagerness to receive and act on feedback.
• Must be in SF or willing to relocate and work in person.
• Bonus: experience with our tech stack (React, Golang, GraphQL, AWS) and agentic products.

Responsibilities

• 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 monitoring, alerting, and observability that catches problems early.
• Scale our systems and push through growth by engineering around limits.
• Own developer velocity; build CI/CD pipelines and internal tooling for faster shipping.
• Identify and fix performance bottlenecks to improve speed and reliability.
• Build for an AI-first workflow by leveraging agents and automation to do more with a small team.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Backend engineering

AI for development

Startup experience

In-person work

Tools

Golang

React

GraphQL

AWS

Job description

Pylon — the agentic support platform purpose-built for B2B.

Pylon is the only agentic support platform, purpose-built for B2B companies. For leaders scaling AI-native support teams, Pylon lets humans and agents collaborate on customer work – investigating, resolving, and acting on every signal across every channel that matters. Unlike platforms built before the AI era, Pylon enriches every interaction with deep account-level context, automates the low impact customer work, and surfaces answers before your team even has to ask. The result: faster responses, happier customers, and a system that continuously improves itself.

We're backed by a16z, BCV, General Catalyst, and Y Combinator. More than 1,500 companies including Linear, Cognition (makers of Devin), Modal Labs, and Incident.io run their support and customer success workflows on Pylon. We're also featured on the Enterprise Tech 30 List.

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

Lunch, dinner, and snacks at the office

Fitness stipend

More about Pylon

Funding: Series B led by a16z and BCV ($51M total raised)

Founders: Advith Chelikani, Robert Eng, and Marty Kausas

Team: Currently 100+ and growing!

Additional Job details

The base salary range for this position is $180k - $280k annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work at Pylon. This role is eligible for stock options, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.