Software Engineer

Software Engineer (Backend)

Company: SkyPilot
Location: San Mateo, CA (in office 4 days per week, Fridays remote)
Compensation: $165,000 - $265,000 + competitive equity
Employment Type: Full-time
Visa Sponsorship: Confirm with recruiter

About SkyPilot

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.

The Role

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.

What You Will Do

• 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.

What You Bring

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

Nice to Have

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

Tech Stack

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.