Hyperbolic

Job Summary:
Hyperbolic Labs is a company dedicated to democratizing AI by providing an open-access AI cloud platform that aggregates computing resources globally. The Senior Platform Engineer will design and build the control plane powering the company's GPU marketplace, enabling seamless access to GPU resources across a multi-cloud environment. This role involves architecting tenant management, resource lifecycle APIs, identity and access control, billing frameworks, and multi-cloud abstractions to support scalable and developer-friendly distributed systems.
Responsibilities:
• Design and build the control plane that powers Hyperbolic's GPU marketplace.
• Architect the abstractions, policies, and golden paths that enable developers to access GPU resources seamlessly.
• Design the tenant management system.
• Build resource lifecycle APIs.
• Implement identity and access control.
• Establish billing and quota frameworks.
• Create multi-cloud abstractions that make the platform feel native regardless of the underlying provider.
• Work closely with the engineering team to craft elegant solutions for complex distributed systems challenges.
• Ensure the control plane is robust, scalable, and developer-friendly.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 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
Preferred:
• 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
Company:
Hyperbolic is the open-access AI cloud made for AI developers, providing fast, affordable access to compute, inference, and AI services. Founded in 2022, the company is headquartered in Irvine, USA, with a team of 11-50 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.