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
Join Cloud Platform Engineering to own the Kubernetes fleet that runs our production AI workloads. You’ll turn manual cluster operations into reliable, repeatable systems—from bringing new cloud providers online to rolling out configuration and upgrades safely across the entire fleet.
This is a hands-on software engineering role with ownership from design through production. You’ll build APIs, controllers, and automation that make infrastructure easier to operate, reduce configuration drift, and bring GPU capacity online seamlessly to power the AI inference business growth.
EXAMPLE INITIATIVES
Unify Kubernetes platform configuration under GitOps, replacing duplicated cluster manifests with shared configuration and explicit provider overrides.
Automate cluster onboarding and provisioning with reusable infrastructure templates, readiness checks, and recoverable workflows.
Build controllers and rollout mechanisms for fleet upgrades and workload-aware maintenance.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Design, build, and operate services, APIs, and Kubernetes controllers that automate cluster lifecycle management.
Develop reusable Terraform modules and GitOps configuration that work across cloud and GPU infrastructure providers.
Make infrastructure changes safe through validation, staged rollouts, clear ownership boundaries, and tested recovery paths.
Build observability into automation so engineers can understand progress, diagnose failures, and retry operations safely.
Partner with infrastructure and workload teams to define platform interfaces, resolve operational pain points, and take projects from design through adoption.
REQUIREMENTS
Experience building and owning production infrastructure software or distributed systems.
Strong programming skills in Go or another systems or backend language, with the ability to contribute to a Go codebase.
Deep experience with Kubernetes infrastructure, including developing controllers or operators and understanding reconciliation, custom resources, and failure handling.
Practical experience with infrastructure as code and GitOps tools such as Terraform and Flux or Argo CD.
Strong Linux, networking, and debugging fundamentals, with sound judgment about reliability and the impact of production changes.
Ability to turn ambiguous operational problems into maintainable software and communicate design tradeoffs clearly.
NICE TO HAVE
Experience managing Kubernetes fleets across multiple clouds or GPU infrastructure providers.
Contributions to Kubernetes or infrastructure open source projects, or experience with workflow orchestration and progressive delivery.
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
- Experience building and owning production infrastructure software or distributed systems
- Strong programming skills in Go or another systems or backend language, with ability to contribute to a Go codebase
- Deep experience with Kubernetes infrastructure, including controllers or operators, reconciliation, custom resources, and failure handling
- Practical experience with infrastructure as code and GitOps tools such as Terraform and Flux or Argo CD
- Strong Linux, networking, and debugging fundamentals
- Ability to address ambiguous operational problems with maintainable software and communicate design tradeoffs
- Experience managing Kubernetes fleets across multiple clouds or GPU infrastructure providers
- Contributions to Kubernetes or infrastructure open source projects, or experience with workflow orchestration and progressive delivery
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.
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