ABOUT BASETEN
Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F, led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products.
THE ROLE
AI is being built by many companies at once. Model labs train more capable models, hyperscalers provide infrastructure and distribution, developers build new AI products, and a growing set of tools gives agents more to work with. Baseten sits at the center of all of it, as the inference platform that developers and large companies use to run AI in production.
We’re hiring a backend/distributed systems engineer to join our Product Platform in following areas:
Commercialization, billing, and partnerships
Developer productivity and agentic development
Observability platform
Please come join our growing team to work on exciting problems. A few sample projects and responsibilities will include
Design and build scalable telemetry ingest and storage pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces across Baseten’s multi-cloud infrastructure
Own and evolve core observability platforms, driving migrations and architectural improvements that improve reliability, reduce cost, and scale with organizational growth
Build world class commercialization and billing systems
Work on some of the most strategic and exciting partnership integrations
Develop internal infrastructure and tooling that improves developer velocity, CI/CD, and deployment safety.
Own the internal AI agent platform end to end — architecture, build, rollout, operation, measurement.
Own Baseten's testing strategy end to end — define the standards, the tiers, and the tooling that engineering teams build against.
Drive adoption through developer experience — good defaults, clear docs, low friction — not mandate.
Improve platform reliability through better alerting, incident tooling, and production debugging workflows.
Lead technical design for cross-team projects and make sound tradeoffs between speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.
Partner with infrastructure, model performance, and product teams to understand what they need to see and ship faster.
Raise the engineering bar through code review, mentorship, and clear technical writing.
REQUIREMENTS
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
5+ years of relevant industry experience, with a focus on building scalable backend systems and platforms.
Experience building or operating observability systems (logging, metrics, tracing) or internal infrastructure at scale.
Proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, or a similar backend language.
A firm grasp of quality and engineering principles: you understand both the what and the why.
Strong systems-level thinking: you understand how the components of a distributed system interact and how data flows through each part.
Platform mindset: you build for adoption and self-service, treat internal engineers as customers, and would rather ship a good default than write a style guide.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
BENEFITS
Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
(U.S. only) 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break (our offices are closed from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day!)
Paid parental leave
Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
(U.S. only) Company-facilitated 401(k)
Exposure to a variety of ML startups, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities.
Apply now to embark on a rewarding journey in shaping the future of AI! If you are a motivated individual with a passion for machine learning and a desire to be part of a collaborative and forward-thinking team, we would love to hear from you.
At Baseten, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example, the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, where applicable).
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience building scalable backend systems and platforms
- Experience building or operating observability systems, including logging, metrics, and tracing, or internal infrastructure at scale
- Proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, or a similar backend language
- Strong understanding of quality and engineering principles
- Strong systems-level thinking and understanding of distributed systems and data flows
- Platform mindset focused on adoption, self-service, internal customers, and good defaults
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Baseten Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Baseten and has not been reviewed or approved by Baseten.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Feedback suggests pay targets the top of market with explicit ranges in postings and a stated aim to provide 90th percentile salaries with equity. Role descriptions emphasize competitive, experience-based pay bands and meaningful stock grants.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is described as fully covered for medical, dental, and vision for employees and their families, reducing out-of-pocket costs. This comprehensive coverage is consistently highlighted alongside other core benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off policies include unlimited PTO with a minimum expectation of at least four weeks, 16 paid company holidays, and a company-wide winter break. These elements indicate substantial protected time away from work.
Baseten Insights
What We Do
AI’s future won’t be a few massive models built by a handful of labs. It’ll be millions of specialized models embedded into every product, workflow, and experience by the people closest to the customer. The foundation of that future is inference. Inference determines the performance, reliability, latency, and economics of every AI product. For AI to scale globally, it must be as reliable, fast, cost-effective, and high-quality as possible. That’s why Baseten exists. Companies like Abridge, Cursor, Lovable, Notion, and OpenEvidence depend on Baseten to power mission-critical AI workloads in production.
Why Work With Us
We’re an interdisciplinary team of researchers, engineers, and operators building the Inference Cloud our AI future demands. We’re running at a hard systems problem that requires first-principles thinking across the entire stack. The bar is high. We work hard, move fast, and care deeply about quality.
