Senior SRE
PylonCalifornia, United States • Palo Alto, California, United States
Posted October 17, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
Pylon is a leading fintech platform offering automated solutions for mortgage businesses, including credit assessment, compliance management, capital sourcing, and tooling. Serving fintechs, lenders, and banks, Pylon enables efficient scaling of mortgage operations with its software-driven approach. Headquartered in Menlo Park and New York, the company is backed by renowned investors such as Conversion Capital, Peter Thiel, QED Investors, and Citi.
Job Description
Pylon is a small team building a product in the mortgage space, looking for engineers to build reliability and operational excellence in production systems. They emphasize a high-performing team with mutual respect and a commitment to reducing operational toil. The role is more focused on SRE work than pure ops, with a 50/50 split between operational tasks and coding.
Requirements
- 4+ years experience in SRE, infrastructure, or platform engineering roles
- Experience working on a team of SREs at a company with mature SRE practices
- Real on-call experience at scale in a large production environment
- Deep AWS expertise
- Strong experience with declarative infrastructure (Terraform, CDK, or similar)
- Nix experience (we want to expand its adoption)
- Track record of building reliability tooling and automation
- Strong opinions that you're willing to defend
- Self-motivated with a growth mindset
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401K
- Dental
- Stock options
