Senior Platform Engineer, Hyperbolic
Open-access AI cloud
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Open-access AI cloud
21-100 employees
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21-100 employees
Company mission
To build the world's most accessible and comprehensive AI platform, empowering developers with affordable, seamless access to meet all their AI needs in one unified platform.
Role
Who you are
- Expert in platform engineering with experience designing and building control planes for cloud platforms, developer platforms, or infrastructure services
- Strong background in API design and development, including RESTful APIs, resource lifecycles, versioning strategies, and multi-cloud abstractions
- Deep understanding of multi-tenancy architecture including tenant isolation, project hierarchies, resource quotas, and billing integration
- Experience with identity, access management, and policy systems including SSO integration, organizational structures, role-based access control (RBAC), and fine-grained permissions
- Proven ability to design "golden paths" and developer experiences that abstract complexity while maintaining power and flexibility
- Strong systems thinking with ability to design scalable, maintainable architectures for distributed control planes
- Experience building compliance hooks, policy enforcement, and governance frameworks for cloud platforms
- Excellent communication skills with ability to collaborate across product, engineering, and business teams
- Track record of building production-grade platform services used by developers or enterprises
Desirable
- Experience building cloud platforms, PaaS, or infrastructure-as-a-service products
- Knowledge of Kubernetes control plane architecture, custom resource definitions (CRDs), and operator patterns
- Familiarity with billing systems, metering, usage tracking, and quota enforcement mechanisms
- Experience with service mesh, API gateway technologies, and rate limiting strategies
- Background in security, compliance frameworks (SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA), and audit logging
- Contributions to open-source platform or infrastructure projects
- Experience at companies like AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or fast-growing infrastructure startups
What the job involves
- We're seeking a Platform Engineer to design and build the control plane that powers Hyperbolic's GPU marketplace
- This is the "aggregator brain" that transforms raw compute from hundreds of diverse vendors into a unified, programmable product
- You'll architect the abstractions, policies, and golden paths that enable thousands of developers to seamlessly access GPU resources across our global network without thinking about the underlying complexity
- In this role, you'll design the tenant management system, build resource lifecycle APIs, implement identity and access control, establish billing and quota frameworks, and create the multi-cloud abstractions that make our platform feel native regardless of the underlying provider
- You'll work closely with our engineering team to craft elegant solutions for complex distributed systems challenges, ensuring our control plane is robust, scalable, and developer-friendly
- This is a foundational engineering role where your architectural decisions will shape how AI developers worldwide interact with compute resources
Our take
As AI models become more complex, they require substantial computer power. This puts a strain on companies and slows down the adoption of AI technologies, as the infrastructure needed to support these models can be costly and resource-intensive.
Hyperbolic is leveraging blockchain technology to create a decentralized cloud network that aggregates GPU computer power. By pooling resources from various contributors, Hyperbolic aims to make AI computing more efficient and affordable.
Its innovative approach hasn't gone unnoticed, with the company recently securing substantial funding. This will enable Hyperbolic to advance its technology and expand its network, working towards its goal of building an open AI ecosystem where contributors and users can benefit from shared computing resources.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2024
$12m
SERIES A
Jul 2024
$7m
SEED
Total funding: $19.7m
Company HQ
Rincon Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Dr. Jasper (Yue) Zhang
(Co-Founder &CEO)Graduated from UC Berkeley with a Math PhD. Gold Medalist at Alibaba Global Math Competition and Chinese Mathematical Olympiad. Previously worked at Ava Labs and Citadel Securities.
Dr. Yuchen Jin
(Co-Founder & CTO)Graduated from the University of Washington with a PhD in CS Systems and Networking with publications at top conferences including ICLR, SIGCOMM, NSDI and SOSP. Previously led Relax, an open-source AI complier within Apache TVM.
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