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Director of Engineering

Vast AI· Engineering
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San Francisco$230k - $350kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Directly lead and scale Vast.ai's engineering organization in San Francisco, driving delivery across the customer-facing platform, building and mentoring a high-performing team, and turning technical direction into shipped software with sustainable reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Delivery across the customer-facing platform: console, APIs, CLI/SDK, serverless, clusters, billing, and the marketplace engine
  • Hiring and team design: partner with recruiting to source, assess, close, and onboard senior engineers; maintain a high talent bar; and build the team structure needed to support the roadmap
  • Engineering quality: review standards, CI, test coverage, incident response, and an on-call rotation that does not burn people out
  • Team growth: developing engineers into senior engineers and seniors into leads
  • Execution cadence: turning technical direction and product priorities into shipped software on predictable timelines, with the minimum process that makes us faster

Qualifications

  • 10+ years building software with depth in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, GPU/ML systems, or high-throughput backend platforms
  • 5+ years managing engineers, including hiring, performance management, and team building at a fast-moving company
  • Hands-on by choice: you review code daily and still ship
  • Direct: you give sharp, kind feedback and expect the same
  • Pragmatic about process: you add structure only where it increases shipping speed, and you cut everything else

Skills

Required:Software architecture and systems designPeople management and hiringCode review and hands-on shipping

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and life insurance
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Meaningful early-stage equity
  • Onsite meals, snacks, and close collaboration with founders/tech leaders
  • Ambitious, fast-paced startup culture where initiative is rewarded
Last updated Sep 27, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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