Software Engineer

Company: SkyPilot
Location: San Mateo CA (in office 4 days per week Fridays remote)
Compensation: $165000 - $265000 competitive equity
Employment Type: Full-time
Visa Sponsorship: Confirm with recruiter

SkyPilot lets AI teams run manage and scale AI workloads on any infrastructure: Kubernetes 17 clouds or on-prem. The open-source project has 9.5K GitHub stars and 200 contributors and is deployed at hundreds of companies including Fortune 500s and leading AI-native companies.

Founded in 2024 by UC Berkeley PhDs and professors including Databricks co-founders SkyPilot has raised $20M; adoption grew more than 600% in 2025.

SkyPilot is hiring a Backend Engineer (3 years) with a strong background in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure to help make SkyPilot the standard for multi-cloud execution of AI workloads.

• Design and build core AI systems for multi-cloud any-cloud execution.
• Build enhancements and new components that support a wide range of AI and batch workloads.
• Work closely with users and customers to make their use cases successful.
• Grow the open-source community through tutorials blog posts and talks.

• 3 years of industry software engineering
• Strong distributed systems and cloud infrastructure background
• Track record of building robust scalable platforms
• Python or Go

• Kubernetes Terraform and multi-cloud experience
• Open-source contributions

Python Go AWS EC2 GCP GCE Azure Kubernetes Terraform

REVENUE: 14% of first-year salary. Est. fee per hire $23K-$37K; 4 seat(s) up to $120K if all filled.

TARGET COMPANIES (suggested): Anyscale Modal Databricks Together AI CoreWeave HashiCorp Google (Kubernetes/GKE).

BEST-FIT CANDIDATE: 3 yrs; distributed systems; cloud infrastructure; Python/Go; visa: confirm; location: San Mateo 4 days. Low competition engaged hiring manager.