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Product Platform - Backend Engineer

Hybrid

Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.

Hybrid · San Francisco

Employer listed it 4 days ago · Added 2 days ago

First listed 4 days ago and still open.

Salary

$165k to $330k per year

Location

Hybrid · San Francisco

Timezone

Not stated

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Mid

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Remote flexibility

Hybrid

This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.

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About the role

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.

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.

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

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