Technical Product Manager
US$170,000 – US$240,000 / yr base salary
Posted 20 Jul 2026
Advertised as “Technical Product Manager, Infrastructure”
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- Expected experience
- 3+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- On-Site
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | US$170,000 – US$240,000 / yr |
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About Us
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.
About the Role
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.
The Scale: With over 20k GPUs, our AI cloud platform powers thousands of bleeding-edge training runs and critical production workloads for 120k+ developers all over the planet. 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.
The Challenge: We don't own the GPUs. Thousands of independent hosts price and operate them, and no two machines are alike. Your job is to make that heterogeneous, decentralized supply behave like the top-tier cloud our customers expect: fast, secure, and reliable.
What You'll Own
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. Initial focus areas:
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Scalability & performance. Keep the core systems fast and ahead of demand as the marketplace grows, from database performance to end-to-end latency.
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Security, trust & compliance. Harden the platform against attacks and abuse, and build the compliance roadmap enterprise customers need.
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Observability & infra tooling. Give every engineer a clear view of platform health, and every host a clear view of their fleet. Own the metrics, tracing, and tooling behind it.
Ideal Experience
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3+ years as a backend engineer AND 3+ years in product management
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Hands-on experience with several of: security, scalability, reliability at scale, infrastructure tooling, distributed systems, observability, abuse/fraud prevention, compliance