Senior Software Engineer, Baseten
Infrastructure
$200-270k
Offers Equity
ML application builder for data scientists
Open for applications
ML application builder for data scientists
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$200-270k
Offers Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make machine learning accessible to every organisation.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
- 5+ years experience building production infrastructure systems
- Expert-level proficiency in Go, with Python experience a plus
- Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments
- Extensive experience with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP) and neo-cloud providers (Crusoe, DigitalOcean, Nebius) a plus
- Advanced understanding of distributed systems concepts and performance tuning
- Proven experience designing observability systems
- Track record of leading technical initiatives and mentoring engineers
- Experience with ML/AI workloads and MLOps platforms highly valued
What the job involves
- As a Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer at Baseten, you'll architect and lead development of our ML inference platform that powers production AI applications
- You'll make key technical decisions for the infrastructure enabling developers to deploy, scale, and monitor ML models with high performance and reliability
- Design and architect scalable infrastructure systems for our ML inference platform
- Lead optimization of Kubernetes deployments for efficient, cost-effective model serving
- Drive enhancements to our inference orchestration layer for complex model deployments
- Define monitoring strategies for model performance, latency, and resource utilization
- Develop advanced solutions for GPU capacity management and throughput optimization
- Establish infrastructure automation standards to streamline ML deployment workflows
- Partner with other engineers to translate complex inference requirements into technical solutions
- Make critical architectural decisions balancing performance with system reliability
- Lead technical discussions and mentor junior engineers on infrastructure best practices
- Contribute to long-term technical strategy and infrastructure roadmap
Our take
As with its mathematical namesake, Baseten focuses on simplifying the complex. The San Francisco startup focuses on simplifying the integration of artificial intelligence into businesses. The tools that Baseten built demolish the need for businesses to hire specialised engineers, utilising the huge strides in artificial intelligence that we’ve seen in the last few years without adding workload to businesses.
With serious funding behind it, Baseten has grown its team by three times year-over-year over the last five years, especially across engineering and marketing. Having hired talent from companies such as GitHub, Google, Uber, Amazon, and Palantir, part of Baseten's focus is on helping companies implement the tools that they have at their disposal, a long-overlooked aspect of machine learning that many businesses have been eager to champion, but uncertain on how to actually use.
Simplifying the complex world of artificial intelligence for business is no mean feat but the three founders, who met whilst working as engineers at Gumroad, have a lot of experience in how to navigate this gap in the market.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2025
$75m
SERIES C
Mar 2024
$40m
SERIES B
Total funding: $135m
Company benefits
- Remote-first work environment. The Baseten team is welcome to work from wherever they want; fully remote, in our San Francisco office, or a mix of both. Today, our team (including our founding team) is spread across the United States, Canada, and Armenia. We provide a $1,000 stipend for you to make your home-office comfortable and productive
- Regular in-person team summits. We get together as a team three times a year to plan, workshop, and most importantly, get to know each other better
- Unlimited PTO. We ask that everyone take at least 4 weeks of vacation. And we have a company-wide break between Christmas and New Year's Day
- Full healthcare coverage. Medical, dental and vision insurance for you and your family
- Paid parental leave. 16-weeks fully paid parental leave (adoptive and non-birth parents included) and flexibility with schedules while returning to work
- Company-sponsored 401(k) for you to contribute to
- Learning and development budget. We encourage you to take classes, attend conferences, and invest in your craft and we’ll cover expenses to make it happen
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Tuhin Srivastava
(Co-Founder)Previously Co-Founder at Shape, Machine Learning at Gumroad and Skulpt.
Amir Haghighat
(Co-Founder)Previously Head of Engineering at Gumroad, Software Engineer at Yelp and Engineering Manager at Clover Health.
Phillip Howes
(Co-Founder)Previously Co-Founder at Shape, Machine Learning Engineer at Gumroad and Research Assistant at the University of Sydney.
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