Technical Recruiting Lead

Location: San Francisco

Type: Full-time

The role

Daytona is expanding its engineering organization and ramping up US and EU hiring very quickly: team leads, product managers, and senior engineers. You will own recruiting for these roles end to end, in direct partnership with the CEO, CTO, and Head of Finance. This is two jobs in one. First, you recruit: full-cycle ownership of searches for some of the rarest profiles in systems engineering. Second, you run point on the broader machine: managing our external search partners alongside your own pipeline and keeping the whole thing fast, coordinated, and accountable. Your process becomes how Daytona hires.

What You\'ll Do

Own full-cycle recruiting for open roles: sourcing, screening, interview process, references, and close for team leads, product managers, and senior engineers

Manage our external search partners alongside your own pipeline: calibrate them on the profiles, run pipeline reviews, dedupe candidates, track funnel metrics, and hold partners accountable for slate quality and pace

Own recruiting operations: ATS and tooling, structured interview loops, scorecards and rubrics, funnel reporting, and offer processes

Partner with the founders and hiring managers on role definition, compensation benchmarking with finance, offer strategy, and closing

Tell Daytona\'s story: turn hard systems problems and a fast-growing business into narratives that convert senior, passive candidates

Own candidate experience end to end: fast, honest, high-signal - every candidate should leave the process wanting to work here

What We\'re Looking For

5+ years recruiting technical talent, including time in-house at a high-growth startup; agency experience on top of that is a plus, not a substitute

A track record closing senior and staff-level systems, infrastructure, or ML engineers - searches where the qualified pool is small, senior, and not looking

Real sourcing craft: creative outbound, community and referral channels, and the persistence to build pipelines nobody hands you

Experience managing external agencies or retained search firms - and holding them to a bar

A process builder: you have set up ATS workflows, structured interviews, and recruiting metrics, not just worked inside them

High ownership: comfort with ambiguity and speed, and you own outcomes end to end; onsite in San Francisco

Nice to have

You have hired for AI infrastructure, cloud compute, or developer platform companies and can speak the language of the people we hire

Fluency with modern recruiting stacks (e.g., Ashby or Greenhouse, sourcing and outreach tooling)

About Daytona

Daytona is the infrastructure layer for AI agents. We provide secure, isolated, instantly available sandboxes where agents run code, use computers, and train. Our platform powers agent workloads, reinforcement learning, and developer environments for some of the largest AI companies in the world. We closed our Series A earlier this year and have already grown 10x since. We are a small, senior team moving extremely fast.

You can send your application directly to careers@daytona.io.

Successful candidates will be contacted for an interview. We appreciate all the applications we receive, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.