# Staff Software Engineer - DevOps and Infra at Pillar

Staff Software Engineer - DevOps and Infra at Pillar in New York, NY. Hybrid, paying $175k–$250k. Posted January 8, 2026.

- Company: Pillar
- Location: New York, NY
- Workplace: Hybrid
- Pay: $175k–$250k
- Posted: 2026-01-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/stratoslabsinc/jobs/4093754009
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/staff-software-engineer-devops-and-infra-pillar-4hygqx

## Requirements

- 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.

## Description

### 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

### 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.

### 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