Lead technical planning, break projects into actionable tasks, drive execution from ideation to production, mentor engineers, and own architecture and technology decisions for open-source and product roadmaps.
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 Technical Lead, you are a hands-on, seasoned engineer who will transform ambitious product roadmaps into delivered engineering milestones:
- Lead technical planning and execution: Break down projects into actionable tasks, establish technical roadmaps, and drive projects from ideation to production. Lead and mentor a high-performing team of engineers, while excited by hands-on execution.
- Own architectural decisions: Make critical decisions for an ambitious open-source & product roadmap, spanning architectural designs and technology choices.
- 2+ years of Tech Lead experience leading multiple engineers through complete project lifecycles, with clear impact.
- 6+ years of experience building distributed systems, cloud platforms, or large-scale backend services.
- Colleagues describe you as having both excellent execution skills and great product and business sense.
- Experience leading small-to-medium sized engineering teams; Ability to clearly communicate clearly and drive engineering excellence.
- Experience with cloud infra technologies: e.g., gRPC, Protobuf, AWS / GCP / Azure / neoclouds, Kubernetes, Terraform, load balancers, container orchestration, etc.
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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