--- title: 'Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Platform at Shadeform' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-cloud-platform-shadeform-remote-7arh3hyr6yq3' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-18' --- # Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Platform at Shadeform - **Company:** Shadeform - **Location:** Remote - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-07-28 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/shadeform/73ac1020-84aa-45c1-ade1-f22a6c620456 ## Job description ## About Shadeform Shadeform provides a unified platform for deploying and managing GPU infrastructure across cloud providers, neoclouds, and data centers. Our platform gives startups, inference providers, and enterprises a consistent way to access and operate GPU capacity through a single API and service layer. ## About the Role As a member of the Shadeform engineering team, your core responsibilities will be building and maintaining the Shadeform GPU platform and building out automated AI infrastructure services. Because of Shadeform’s unique position in the market, you will work on novel solutions to some of the biggest challenges in the GPU market. This role includes GPU provisioning, orchestration, virtualization, managing customer-facing infrastructure services, and building in multi cloud environments. You will own the systems that turn fragmented GPU capacity into a reliable, production-ready platform. You will have opportunities to test out bleeding edge GPU infrastructure and utilize the latest AI dev tools. ## Preferred Experience - Operating and debugging with Kubernetes - Building and maintaining public facing cloud platforms and managing instance lifecycle - Building managed services and public APIs utilized by technical customers - General backend and infrastructure development Technical Stack - Golang and Next.js; we expect everyone to be language agnostic - AWS / GCP - Kubernetes - Virtualization technologies such as KVM and Kubevirt Location - Remote in a US timezone; US preferred; cannot sponsor visas at this time ## About Shadeform ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Shadeform is a GPU cloud marketplace that provides a unified platform and API for AI and ML teams to access and manage GPU capacity across multiple cloud providers. - **Entity Type**: Private (Pre-Seed/Seed stage; total funding $500K) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: Ed Goode (CEO) and Ronald Ding (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Cloud infrastructure for AI/ML (GPU computing) - **Target customers**: B2B – AI startups, engineering teams, and enterprises that need reliable, on-demand GPU capacity for training and inference workloads. - **Mission or purpose statement**: To unify ML infrastructure across clouds so teams are never blocked by their current provider’s GPU capacity and features. ## Products & Services - **Shadeform Platform**: A single console and API that aggregates GPU availability and pricing from 30+ vetted providers across 100+ regions. Users can provision instances, deploy models for inference, receive availability notifications, configure auto-reservations, and manage all providers from one control plane. - **Unified API**: Generalized API to launch workloads on any provider without managing multiple cloud logins, quotas, or vendor integrations. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total fundraised: $500K (latest round: Seed VC; previously pre-seed) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Summer 2023 batch), Unpopular Ventures, Translink Capital, Soma Capital, Charlotte Fund - **Growth Signals**: Small but growing team of 10-11 employees; active job postings (Founding Software Engineer, Chief of Staff, Founding Sales, Operations Specialist, Senior Marketer); LinkedIn follower growth +14.9% monthly; recent hires from top tech companies (Microsoft, AWS, Robinhood, Tesla, io.net). ## Competitive Advantages - **Multi-cloud abstraction**: Eliminates the friction of dealing with disparate provider interfaces, quotas, and support pipelines. - **Real-time availability & pricing data**: Ensures inference and training jobs run at optimal cost without manual comparison. - **Strong industry partnerships**: Vetted network of 30+ GPU cloud providers, enabling capacity that large hyperscalers cannot always offer. - **Founder expertise**: Previous experience building and operating critical cloud infrastructure at AWS, Azure, and scaling distributed systems at Robinhood. ## Strategic Focus - **Scaling the platform**: Adding more providers and regions to expand capacity and geographic reach. - **Automation & self-service**: Enhancing auto-reservation, notifications, and one-click deployment to reduce manual overhead. - **Go-to-market expansion**: Hiring sales and marketing leadership to reach AI startups and enterprise teams struggling with GPU shortages. ## Why Work Here - **Impact**: Early-stage infrastructure startup where engineers and sales hires can directly shape the product and company direction. - **Remote-friendly**: Roles listed as San Francisco, CA / Remote (US) – flexible work arrangement. - **Culture**: Small, high-impact team working on hard infrastructure problems; YC-backed with a fast-paced, ownership-driven environment. - **Compensation**: Salary ranges posted ($100K-$190K for engineering, $125K-$300K for founding sales, plus equity likely included). - **Engineering focus**: Building distributed systems, cloud APIs, and orchestration tools – ideal for engineers who enjoy deep infrastructure challenges. ## Sources 1. [Shadeform Careers](https://shadeform.com/jobs) 2. [Y Combinator Profile](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/shadeform) 3. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/shadeformai) 4. [CB Insights Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/shadeform) 5. [Y Combinator Jobs](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/shadeform/jobs) ## Other roles at Shadeform - [Sourcing Manager / Sourcing Associate](https://feeny.ai/job/sourcing-manager-sourcing-associate-shadeform-remote-za2hg41k42gn) - [Data Center Development Advisor](https://feeny.ai/job/data-center-development-advisor-shadeform-remote-r3ans8k78m95) - [Sales Development Representative](https://feeny.ai/job/sales-development-representative-shadeform-remote-s4pnywzssrbt) - [Colocation & Data Center Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/colocation-data-center-manager-shadeform-remote-nhs25mq3tfb3) - [Customer Success Engineer II](https://feeny.ai/job/customer-success-engineer-ii-shadeform-remote-hctq9746g795)