Baseten
Software Engineer - Baseten Inference Stack
Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.
Hybrid · San Francisco
Employer listed it 4 months ago · Added 4 days ago
Been open since 4 months ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.
Salary
$180,000–$360,000
Location
Hybrid · San Francisco
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Mid
Category
Software
Published by the employer
Remote flexibility
Hybrid
This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around San Francisco, Toronto, New York, Montreal, Seattle, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "San Francisco, Toronto, New York, Montreal, Seattle, Hybrid"
- Listing mentions "Hybrid"
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- Not suitable if you plan to move between countries
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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
Baseten’s Inference Stack team builds the distributed runtime that powers large-scale LLM inference across our platform. We operate at the intersection of distributed systems, model performance, infrastructure, and developer experience. We enable customers to deploy and operate cutting-edge LLM models with industry-leading performance, scalability, reliability, and ease of use.
As a Software Engineer on the Inference Stack team, you’ll work across the stack - from the developer experience customers use to deploy models, the libraries used for features like tool calling and reasoning, all the way down to the systems we use to orchestrate deployments in Kubernetes and route traffic efficiently.
This is an ideal role for engineers who enjoy owning systems in production, solving hard integration problems, and making complex infrastructure simple and reliable for users.
EXAMPLE INITIATIVES
Blog Posts
https://www.baseten.co/blog/nvidia-dynamo-day-baseten-inference-stack/
https://www.baseten.co/blog/how-baseten-achieved-2x-faster-inference-with-nvidia-dynamo/
https://www.baseten.co/blog/how-baseten-multi-cloud-capacity-management-mcm-powers-cloud-self-hosted-and-hybr/#comparing-deployment-options-cloud-vs-self-hosted-vs-hybrid
RESPONSIBILITIES
Develop infrastructure and orchestration systems for deploying and managing large-scale distributed LLM inference
Work across the stack, from customer-facing features to low-level infrastructure components
Build platform capabilities related to routing, autoscaling, scheduling, observability, and runtime management
Improve the reliability, scalability, and usability of our inference stack
Collaborate closely with Model Performance engineers to make new inference optimizations broadly available to customers and easy to configure
Help define best practices around testing, release automation, benchmarking, and operational excellence
Debug complex production systems spanning Kubernetes, distributed runtimes, networking, and GPU workloads
Make thoughtful engineering tradeoffs balancing performance, reliability, operational simplicity, and developer experience
Own projects end-to-end: from architecture and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and iteration based on customer feedback
REQUIREMENTS
Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
Strong background in distributed systems, backend infrastructure, or platform engineering
Requirements
- ·Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- ·Strong background in distributed systems, backend infrastructure, or platform engineering
- ·Experience building and operating production systems where reliability, latency, and scale are first-class concerns
- ·Strong sense of developer experience: you think about how systems are used, not just how they work
- ·Motivated and willing to learn new languages, frameworks, and systems as needed
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
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Baseten, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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