Senior Software Engineer-Go, Kubernetes (Cloud Platforms)
Quick facts
- Pay
- $180K - $280K
- Type
- Full-time
- Location
- San Mateo, CA
- Background
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Skills
- Kubernetes
- Industry
- Information Technology — 681 open jobs
- Visa in listing
- H-1B, OPT
- Apply
- Free to apply — never pay anyone for a job offer or visa sponsorship
Job description
Role details
Salary: $180K - $280K
Hybrid work policy: 4 days in office in San Mateo, Fridays remote, Full-time position
Location: San Mateo, CA
Equity: Competitive equity
Visa sponsorship details: Open to visa transfers (e.g. OPT, H1B transfers)
Tech stack: Go, Kubernetes, gRPC, PostgreSQL, Terraform
About this role:
We are building the future of multicloud AI infra. We are the Berkeley founding team commercializing (9.5K+ GitHub stars, 200+ contributors), to enable AI to run on different cloud infrastructures in a portable, cost-optimizing, and highly available way.
We are 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, It 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.
We are looking for a seasoned engineer who has built SaaS/cloud platforms from zero to one at start-ups. You will play an instrumental role in designing and implementing SkyPilot's commercial cloud platform, which will power a reimagined multicloud AI experience.
What you'll do
- Architect our commercial cloud platform from the ground up: Control plane and data plane separation, tenant/user management, control plane scaling, monitoring, alerting.
- Building core, production-grade platform services: Designing and implementing APIs and services in a cloud-native stack (e.g., Go, Kubernetes, microservices), balancing reliability, security, and simplicity.
Requirements:
Work experience
- Must have Experience building a SaaS platform from 0 to 1 (looking for builders, not maintainers).
Hard skills
- Must have Go preferred, Kubernetes required in production.
Miscellaneous
- Must have At least one clear excellence signal in the last two roles: a top infra or cloud company (Databricks, Confluent, Snowflake, Netflix, HashiCorp, well-funded Series A to C infra startup) or a top-30 CS program.
Baseline
Seniority:
- Required 6+ years of experience as a backend or platform engineer with 0-1 startup experience.
Work experience:
- Required Experience at a VC-backed startup during the zero-to-one build phase (Seed-Series C range).
- Required Built the platform layer of a multi-tenant SaaS or cloud product: control plane, tenant and user management, auth or RBAC, API gateway, billing or metering.
- Required Search, analytics, database internals, fintech and low-level systems work do not count as platform experience.
Education
- Required Bachelor's in CS, computer engineering, or software engineering from a top-30 school.
Hard skills
- Required Experience with gRPC, PostgreSQL, and Terraform.
Nice-to-have:
Miscellaneous:
- Was an early employee (within first 30 at the company) of a start-up that later scaled.
Visa sponsorship record
No public sponsorship records foundWe didn't find H-1B, H-1B1, E-3 or green card (PERM) filings under the name Ronaj Recruitment in the Department of Labor and USCIS data. That doesn't mean the job can't be sponsored — the company may file under a different legal name, be new to sponsorship, or sponsor a visa that isn't in these datasets (for example H-2B or J-1).
Tip: ask the recruiter early, in writing, which visa they sponsor and whether they cover the legal and filing fees.
Which visas can work for this job
Occupation: Software Developers (SOC 15-1252) — estimated from the job title.
- Mentioned in the listing
H-1B, OPT
- H-1B cap-exempt employer
Regular cap-subject employer — a new H-1B needs to win the lottery in March (unless you already hold cap-counted H-1B status).
- TN (citizens of Canada and Mexico)
This kind of role may fit the USMCA profession “Computer Systems Analyst (or Engineer, for engineering-degree holders)” — it depends on the actual duties. No lottery, no cap; you need the matching degree or license.
- E-3 (Australia) and H-1B1 (Chile, Singapore)
Same degree requirement as H-1B, but no lottery and a separate quota that is rarely filled.
- O-1 (extraordinary ability)
For candidates with awards, publications, press, a high salary or critical roles at distinguished organizations. No cap, no lottery; the employer files a petition.
- STEM OPT extension (F-1 students)
Requires an E-Verify employer. We didn't find this company in the E-Verify list — ask HR.
Salary vs prevailing wage
Level II (qualified)Software Developers · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Annual prevailing wages set by the Department of Labor (OFLC).
| Level | Prevailing wage | H-1B lottery odds* |
|---|---|---|
| Level I | $137,093 | ~15% |
| Level II | $165,131 | ~31% |
| Level III | $193,149 | ~46% |
| Level IV | $221,187 | ~61% |
This job pays $180,000–$280,000 a year — that's Level II (qualified). In the wage-weighted H-1B lottery a Level II registration gets 2 entries; estimated selection chance about 31%.
* Odds are DHS projections for the FY2027 wage-weighted lottery (actual results vary by year and employer). Since the FY2027 cap season the H-1B lottery is weighted by wage level: Level I = 1 entry, II = 2, III = 3, IV = 4. The level is set by the offered wage against the prevailing wage for the occupation and worksite. Separately, a $100,000 fee for new H-1B petitions for workers outside the US was announced in 2025; as of September 2026 a federal court ruling keeps it unenforceable while appeals continue — check the current status.
Sources: U.S. Department of Labor OFLC disclosure data (H-1B/H-1B1/E-3 LCA, PERM), OFLC prevailing wage data, USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, E-Verify participating employers. Data loaded: LCA FY2024–FY2026, PERM, USCIS Data Hub, OFLC wages; updated 2026-10-03. Employers are matched by name, so records of companies with similar names can occasionally be mixed up. This is general information, not legal advice — talk to an immigration attorney about your case.