Company
SkyPilot
Annual salary
$165k – $265k/yr
Location
San Mateo, CA
Listed
3d ago
- Experience:
- 3 to 8 years
- Workplace:
- 4 days in office in San Mateo, Fridays remote
- Equity:
- Competitive equity
Hybrid in San Mateo, CA.
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About this Role
SkyPilot is building the future of multicloud AI infra. We are the Berkeley founding team commercializing SkyPilot (9.5K+ GitHub stars, 200+contributors), to enable AI to run on different cloud infrastructures in a portable, cost-optimizing, and highly available way.
SkyPilot is deployed at 100s of companies, including Fortune 500s and top AI-natives (Shopify, Redis, Abridge, Hippocratic, Applied Compute, etc.). In 2025, adoption grew >600%, now launching more GPUs per month than the biggest neocloud’s fleet. Currently in stealth, SkyPilot is founded in 2024 by UC Berkeley PhDs and professors (incl. Databricks cofounders). We’re building a top-tier engineering team, with current talent from Databricks, Google, Crusoe, ByteDance, and PingCap.
We are seeking a backend engineer with at least 3 years of industry experience and a strong background in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure. You should be comfortable designing and implementing impactful infrastructure platforms and have a track record of building robust, scalable systems. You will play a crucial role in shaping the future of Sky Computing and AI infrastructure:
What you'll do
- Design and build core AI systems in the Sky Computing vision to make SkyPilot the standard solution in multi-cloud, any-cloud execution for AI.
- Build enhancements and new components to evolve SkyPilot with better support of a wide range of AI and batch workloads.
- **Engage with users: **Opportunity to work closely with our users and customers to make their use cases successful; to grow our open-source community; to gain visibility for your work via public tutorials, blog posts, and/or talks.
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