Team Lead, Windows Sandboxes
San Francisco, CAFull-timePosted 1 day agoStill listed today
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The Team Lead will build and lead Daytona’s Windows sandbox pod, developing on-demand, isolated Windows VMs for AI agents that use desktop software. The role combines hands-on engineering and technical direction with management of two senior engineers, in partnership with a dedicated PM. The lead owns runtime architecture, Windows-specific infrastructure challenges, licensing-compliant design, reliability, cost, and host density.
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Team Lead, Windows Sandboxes
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Location: San Francisco
Type: Full-time
Reports to: CTO
The role
You will lead the pod building Daytona's Windows sandboxes: on-demand, isolated Windows VMs built for AI agents that need to use real desktop software. Computer-use agents, legacy enterprise apps, Office automation, QA at scale. Nobody has made Windows feel serverless. That's the job.
This is an engineering role first. You will build alongside the team most of the week and own the technical direction, and you will also manage the pod: 2 senior engineers with a dedicated PM. Management is part of the job, not the whole job.
What You'll Do
Own architecture and delivery of the Windows sandbox runtime: Windows guests on our KVM-based stack, boot and login time optimization, snapshot/pause/fork for Windows VMs
Drive Windows-specific hard problems: image build pipelines, sysprep and provisioning automation, driver and virtio integration, display and input streaming for computer-use agents
Own the licensing-compliant architecture for Windows in a multi-tenant cloud (SPLA and BYOL realities) together with legal and finance
Own reliability, cost per sandbox, and density on Windows hosts
Hire and lead the pod; partner with your PM on roadmap and enterprise commitments
What We're Looking For
8+ years in systems or infrastructure engineering, 2+ years leading engineers
Deep experience running Windows at scale in non-Microsoft-stack environments: Windows guests on KVM/QEMU, virtio drivers, image automation
Strong Windows internals knowledge: boot process, services, registry, WinRM/PowerShell automation, unattended provisioning
Systems programming skills (Go, Rust, C/C++, or serious PowerShell/C# plus one of these)
Pragmatism about Windows licensing constraints and how they shape architecture
Nice to have
Experience with VDI, cloud PC products, Windows 365 / AVD-class systems, or game streaming
GPU-accelerated Windows guests, remote display protocols (RDP internals, Spice, custom streaming)
Experience supporting computer-use / desktop automation agents
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 just raised a $60M Series B at a $1B valuation — an 8x step-up from our Series A earlier this year. We are growing fast and hiring across the board.
You can send your application directly to [email protected].
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.
How this job compares
Set against the 3,060 open Systems Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$162–235K/yr457 salary ranges
- California median$38–54/hr23 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 557 open Systems Engineering jobs in California and 3,060 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Systems Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (2,433 postings).
- Education
- 1,032 of the 3,060 open Systems Engineering jobs (34%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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