Staff Backend Engineer, DevOps

About Pulley

Pulley's mission is to make it easier for anyone to start a company. We believe that more startups should exist and that founder-led companies are more successful in the long term. With Pulley's cap table management tools, companies can better understand and optimize their equity for the long term. Starting a company is hard enough. Managing equity shouldn't be.

We're a high-performing team on a mission to redefine how early-stage leaders build and manage their companies in an AI-native world. Pulley is growing quickly with over 4,000 customers, including startups like Linear, Runway, Fathom, and Roam. Our trajectory is fueled by top investors and angels. All of our growth has been organic, and we're expanding the team to meet the growing demand. We are looking for passionate, execution-focused self-starters to help us build the next generation of tools for founders.

About the role

We’re looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to lead the design and implementation of critical infrastructure and DevOps systems that power Pulley's platform at scale. This is a foundational role focused on building resilient deployment pipelines, monitoring systems, and backend infrastructure that enables our engineering teams to ship features rapidly and reliably. You will set the technical direction for our platform infrastructure, working across deployment automation, observability, performance optimization, and system reliability. You’ll modernize our DevOps practices, establish scalable CI / CD pipelines, and ensure our backend services are robust, observable, and efficiently deployed. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in complex infrastructure challenges, loves building systems that enable other engineers to move faster, and wants to establish the operational backbone for a rapidly scaling fintech platform.

What you'll do

• Design and implement scalable deployment infrastructure, CI / CD pipelines, and release automation systems
• Lead architecture decisions that improve system reliability, observability, and operational excellence
• Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging infrastructure to ensure high system availability
• Develop internal tooling and platforms that accelerate engineering velocity and reduce operational overhead
• Collaborate with backend engineers to optimize application performance and infrastructure efficiency
• Establish best practices for infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration, and cloud resource management
• Champion operational excellence through automated testing, deployment guardrails, and incident response procedures
• Mentor engineers on DevOps practices and help establish a culture of reliability across the team

What you bring

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Benefits

Annual Salary Range : $200,000—$240,000 USD. Plus equity to be negotiated. The range above reflects the typical salary range for this role. The final offer will depend on factors such as your experience, interview performance, level, and other considerations assessed during the hiring process.

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