Vast.ai is seeking a Technical Product Manager to drive the backend our GPU cloud marketplace runs on. This is the software behind every live GPU rental (over 700k transactions a month): the daemon on every host's machines, the orchestration that powers each instance, and the infrastructure and test systems that let us ship it all at high velocity.
🏢 About Vast.ai
Vast.ai's cloud powers AI projects and businesses all over the world. We are democratizing and decentralizing AI computing—reshaping our future for the benefit of humanity. We are a growing and highly motivated team dedicated to an ambitious technical plan. Our structure is flat, our ambitions are out-sized, and leadership is earned by shipping excellence.
🎯 The Role
This is a product with real scale, real data, and real users from day one. The work you ship moves tangible revenue in weeks, not quarters. Your job is to make that heterogeneous, decentralized supply behave like the top-tier cloud our customers expect: fast, secure, and reliable.
✅ Key Responsibilities
You'll drive the infrastructure, security, and reliability roadmap: sequencing competing priorities, turning non-functional requirements into specs engineering can build, and seeing them through until they ship.
You'll own the metrics that prove it worked: platform uptime, fleet reliability, cost-to-serve.
📌 Required Qualifications
3+ years as a backend engineer AND 3+ years in product management
Hands-on experience with several of: security, scalability, reliability at scale, infrastructure tooling, distributed systems, observability, abuse/fraud prevention, compliance
Industry experience in one or more of the following areas: software infrastructure, developer tooling (APIs, SDKs, CLIs), AI/ML, cloud computing, GPUs, or two-sided marketplaces
Experience at a fast-paced startup or rapid-growth team
⭐ Desirable Experience
You are AI-native. You work with AI agents every day, and you want to build the compute layer the AI era runs on.
You are deeply technical. You came up as an engineer, and you reason about scalability, security, and efficiency as product concerns, not afterthoughts.
You are persuasive across the stack. You can make a technical tradeoff legible to c-suite and a thankless migration compelling to the team doing it.
You are biased toward action. You'd rather ship the fix today than present the plan next week.
🎁 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
