Staff Software Engineer - DevOps and Infra
- Pay
- $175,000 – $250,000 per year
- Location
- New York, NY · On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Lead / Staff
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Listed
- 30 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- AWS
- Terraform
- CI/CD pipelines
Also useful
- Go
- C++
- TypeScript
- SOC2 compliance
- Kubernetes
Stated benefits & perks
- Health
- Dental
- Vision
- 401k
- Unlimited pto
Overview
- Role: Lead Software Engineer - DevOps and Infra
- 5 days a week in NYC HQ
- Base salary: $175k-250k
- Equity: Competitive Initial Equity Package + refreshers
- 3+ Years of Experience
What You'll Do
- Expand and Own the AWS Cloud: You will take full ownership of our AWS environment. We aren't just looking for someone to keep the lights on; we want you to architect, scale, and optimize our cloud footprint to support new services, ensuring our AWS presence is robust, cost-effective, and deeply integrated with our core trading systems.
- Architect the Infrastructure Stack: You will lead our transition to a full Infrastructure as Code (IaC) model. Your goal is to eliminate manual configuration by building out a sophisticated, modular Terraform stack. We want a world where our entire hybrid footprint-from cloud instances to colocation networking-is defined, tested, and deployed through code.
- System Hardening & Security: You'll be the gatekeeper for our environments. This means managing the full lifecycle of container security, CVE remediation, and hitting our SOC2 milestones without slowing down the team.
- Observability Architecture: Beyond just setting up dashboards, you will design our monitoring strategy using to catch bottlenecks before they become outages.
- Pipeline Evolution: You'll refine our GitHub Actions and CI/CD workflows to ensure our Go, C++, and TypeScript services move from commit to production safely and instantly.
- Reliability & Response: You'll join our on-call rotation to perform deep-dive post-mortems that ensure the same bug never bites us twice-not just to patch things.
What We are Looking For
- Infrastructure Expert: You have a deep understanding of cloud services, how to scale them, and how to manage them.
- DevOps & Internal Tooling Master: You excel at building developer-focused tools and automation that make the entire engineering org more productive. You've built CI/CD pipelines, deployment systems, and internal platforms that engineers love to use.
- Networking Savvy: You understand the "plumbing"-DNS, VPNs, firewalls, and load balancers-especially in the context of hybrid-cloud connectivity.
- Experience: 0-5 years in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering, with a burning desire to own the stack from the ground up.
- Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity, learn quickly, and independently figure things out in fast-moving environments.
- Exceptional problem solving skills and ability to break down and tackle complex tasks.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary & Equity
- 401(k) Program
- Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
- Unlimited PTO and Flexible Hours
- Paid lunch, coffee, snacks (and dinner if you're staying late)
- Monthly Gym Stipend
- Regular Team Off-Sites
About Pillar
Pillar is building the next-generation commodity risk management stack for the $10T physical economy. We combine real-time marketdata with AI-powered exposure modeling and automated trade generation to arm operators with precise protection from volatility. From instant execution to continuous monitoring, alerts, and recommendations, Pillar turns complex market risk into a fully managed, always-on hedging engine.
We were founded in 2023 by the youngest macro market-maker at Barclays and a trading systems engineer at Coinbase, and have raised over $20M in capital from Andreesen Horowitz (a16z), Crucible Capital, Neo, DST Global and more.
From Pillar's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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The Staff Software Engineer - DevOps and Infra posting at Pillar states compensation of $175,000 – $250,000 per year. It is listed as a full-time position. Final pay may depend on location, experience, and interview evaluation on Pillar's official career site.
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