Lead end-to-end development of user-facing, full-stack product features for SkyPilot's open-source and commercial offerings. Scope, implement, deploy, and iterate on frontend and backend integrations to drive growth and delightful UX.
SkyPilot is building the future of multicloud AI infra. We are the Berkeley founding team commercializing SkyPilot (9.5K+ GitHub stars, 200+contributors), to enable AI to run on different cloud infrastructures in a portable, cost-optimizing, and highly available way.
SkyPilot is deployed at 100s of companies, including Fortune 500s and top AI-natives (Shopify, Redis, Abridge, Hippocratic, Applied Compute, etc.). In 2025, adoption grew >600%, now launching more GPUs per month than the biggest neocloud’s fleet. Currently in stealth, SkyPilot is founded in 2024 by UC Berkeley PhDs and professors (incl. Databricks cofounders). We’re building a top-tier engineering team, with current talent from Databricks, Google, Crusoe, ByteDance, and PingCap.
As a Software Engineer in Product, you’ll lead full-stack, user-facing features and products in SkyPilot’s open-source and commercial offerings:
- Own user-facing features end-to-end: From ideation, to scoping, to implementation, deployment, and refinement based on user signals
- Drive growth and delightful UX: Understand what makes features delightful, useful, and sticky; ship new features geared towards growth, owning everything from frontend design to backend integration
Ideal Candidates
You are a seasoned engineer with experience building SaaS/cloud platforms from zero to one.
- 3+ years of experience in full-stack product development at startups
- Familiar with best-in-class tooling in the ecosystem: e.g., NextJS, TypeScript, FastAPI, Python development, SQLAlchemy, Postgres, and more
- Great product taste: You have an unusually great taste in delightful products and measure your work to that standard; you understand what makes great UX/UI great
What We Offer
- Competitive equity, compensation, and health benefits.
- Chance to work with some of the best minds in cloud, distributed, and AI systems, with significant autonomy and ownership.
- Front-row seat at the latest open-source infra startup from Berkeley.
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