Multiple Engineering Roles at vCluster Labs

vCluster Labs | Multiple Engineering Roles

Location: REMOTE (US, Canada, Europe)
Type: Full-time
Compensation: $140k–$220k USD | $140k–$220k CAD | €80K – €145K + Equity
Source: Hacker News

About vCluster Labs

vCluster Labs builds the software layer that turns hardware into a cloud. We provide one platform to turn raw compute into every kind of cluster, for the teams building AI infrastructure and the customers they serve. We are a VC-backed startup in hyper-growth and are a fully remote team.

Open Roles

Senior/Staff Backend Engineer

Build controllers and operators at the core of the platform.

• Requirements: Strong fit if you have authored Kubernetes controllers/operators from scratch using kubebuilder, controller-runtime, or client-go.
• Apply here (Option 1) or Apply here (Option 2)

Senior Inference Engineer

Our first dedicated inference hire.

• Requirements:
  • Production deployment/serving experience with vLLM, SGLang, or TensorRT-LLM.
  • Hands-on inference optimization (quantization, batching, caching, routing).
  • Strong Python or Go skills.

Senior Application Security Engineer

Focus on Kubernetes internals from an exploitation/attack-surface perspective.

• Requirements:
  • Hands-on container breakout and privilege escalation experience.
  • Real code-level security review and threat modeling.
• Apply here

vNode Engineering Tech Lead

Build vNode, our tenant-isolation container runtime (Linux user namespaces and seccomp, no VM, no virtual kubelet).

• Requirements:
  • Container runtime internals (containerd, CRI-O, runc).
  • Kubernetes node-level depth (kubelet, CRI layer).
  • Linux isolation primitives (seccomp, user namespaces, cgroups).
• Apply here

How to Apply

• Full list of open roles: vCluster Careers Page
• Feel free to reply to the original thread with any questions.