Daytona
Technical Recruiting Lead
San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years recruiting technical talent, including time in-house at a high-growth startup.
About the job
Own end-to-end technical recruiting and recruiting operations for Daytona’s rapidly growing US and EU engineering organization, while coordinating external search partners.
What you'll do
- Recruit team leads, product managers, and senior engineers through sourcing, screening, interviews, references, and closing.
- Manage external search partners, pipeline reviews, candidate deduplication, funnel metrics, and partner accountability.
- Build recruiting operations and partner with founders and hiring managers on role definitions, compensation benchmarking, offer strategy, and candidate experience.
What they ask for
- 5+ years recruiting technical talent, including in-house experience at a high-growth startup.
- Track record closing senior and staff-level systems, infrastructure, or ML engineers.
- Experience managing external agencies or retained search firms.
- Experience building ATS workflows, structured interviews, and recruiting metrics; onsite in San Francisco.
Nice to have
- Experience hiring for AI infrastructure, cloud compute, or developer platform companies.
- Familiarity with recruiting stacks such as Ashby or Greenhouse and sourcing and outreach tooling.
Tools
Ashby, Greenhouse
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