Software Engineer (Backend)

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