Software Engineer (Backend)
Transparent Search Group · San Mateo, California, United States ·
- Employment
- Full time
- Category
- Backend
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Salary
- USD 165,000 – 265,000 / year
Transparent Search Group · San Mateo, California, United States ·
SkyPilot · San Mateo, USA
SkyPilot · San Mateo, USA
SkyPilot · San Mateo, USA
SkyPilot · San Mateo, USA
SkyPilot, a startup building an open-source platform for running AI workloads across Kubernetes, 17+ clouds, and on-prem, is hiring a backend engineer with 3+ years of experience to design core multi-cloud execution systems. Day-to-day work is in Python/Go on distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, plus open-source community engagement.
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
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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.
Python, Go, AWS EC2, GCP GCE, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform
SkyPilot · San Mateo, USA