Company
SkyPilot
Annual salary
$180k – $280k/yr
Location
San Mateo, CA
Listed
3d ago
- Experience:
- 6+ 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 looking for a seasoned engineer who has built SaaS/cloud platforms from zero to one at startups. You will play an instrumental role in designing and implementing SkyPilot’s commercial cloud platform, which will power a reimagined multicloud AI experience.
What you'll do
- Architect SkyPilot’s commercial cloud platform from the ground up: Control plane and data plane separation, tenant/user management, control plane scaling, monitoring, alerting.
- Building core, production-grade platform services: Designing and implementing APIs and services in a cloud-native stack (e.g., Go, Kubernetes, microservices), balancing reliability, security, and simplicity.
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