Software Engineer (Cloud Platforms)

🚀 We’re Hiring: Software Engineer (Cloud Platforms)! Are you a builder who loves taking SaaS/cloud platforms from 0 to 1 ? Do you want to shape the future of multicloud AI infrastructure?

We are backed by UC Berkeley founders and commercializing SkyPilot (9.5K+ GitHub stars, 200+ contributors) to enable AI to run portably, cost-optimizing, and with high availability across different cloud infrastructures.

We are scaling fast—adoption grew >600% in 2025—and we are looking for top-tier engineers to join our founding core. 📍 Role Details Role: Software Engineer (Cloud Platforms) Location: San Mateo, CA (Hybrid: 4 days in office, Fridays remote) Salary: $180K – $280K + Competitive Equity Visa Sponsorship: Open to visa transfers (e.g., OPT, H1B) Tech Stack: Go, Kubernetes, gRPC, PostgreSQL, Terraform 💻 What You’ll Do Architect the Platform: Build SkyPilot’s commercial cloud platform from the ground up, focusing on control plane and data plane separation, tenant/user isolation, control plane scaling, monitoring, and alerting.

Build Core Services

Design and implement APIs and services in a cloud-native stack (Go, Kubernetes, microservices) with a strong emphasis on reliability, security, and simplicity. 🎯 What We’re Looking For (Requirements) The Builder Mindset: 6+ years of experience as a backend or platform engineer, with mandatory experience building a SaaS platform from 0 to 1 .

Core Skills

• Go is preferred; Kubernetes experience in production is required.
• Strong familiarity with gRPC, PostgreSQL, and Terraform.

Excellence Signal

Background from a top infrastructure/cloud company (e.g., Databricks, Confluent, Netflix, HashiCorp, or well-funded Series A–C infrastructure startups) or a top-30 CS program. ✨ Why Join Us? Work with a world-class team scaling infrastructure used by Fortune 500s and top AI-natives. Direct impact on shaping the infrastructure powering the next wave of AI applications. 👉 Ready to build from scratch?

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