Engineering Manager, Baseten
Internal Platform
$240-260k
+ Equity
ML application builder for data scientists
Job no longer available
ML application builder for data scientists
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$240-260k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make machine learning accessible to every organisation.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience managing and growing engineering teams, ideally in a platform, infrastructure, or developer experience context
- Strong technical background in Go and/or Python, with the ability to engage credibly in code reviews and architectural discussions
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes/Docker tooling (e.g., Helm, Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience managing and working within large monorepos; bonus points for familiarity with tools such as Bazel, Pants, Moon, or Turborepo
- Advanced understanding of CI/CD concepts and a track record of improving developer experience at scale
- Excellent developer tool culture with a focus on best practices; bonus points if you or your team has contributed to open-source developer tooling
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence without authority across teams
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Manager for Baseten's Platform Team, you will lead and grow the team responsible for building internal systems to reduce low leverage work for the entire engineering organization
- While our product delivers infrastructure for AI development, your team's focus is on creating robust internal systems that amplify productivity, collaboration, and quality across all engineering teams through exceptional tooling, efficient workflows, AI enablement, and world-class development environments
- You are a people-first leader who also brings deep technical conviction
- You care about elegant solutions: streamlined monorepos, lightning-fast CI pipelines, and thoughtfully designed shared libraries
- You know how to build and inspire a team that delivers them
- If you thrive at the intersection of technical craft and people leadership, you'll find this role deeply rewarding
- Recruit, hire, and develop a high-performing team of platform engineers
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, psychological safety, and continuous improvement
- Provide regular coaching, feedback, and career development support to your direct reports
- Partner with tech leads and engineering leadership to define the long-term vision and roadmap for platform infrastructure
- Guide the team in creating diverse tooling tailored to the needs of different engineering teams
- Oversee the enhancement of monorepo capabilities and development of project templates for consistency and efficiency
- Drive the design and implementation of shared libraries focused on observability
- Champion improvements to the speed, reliability, and comprehensiveness of CI pipelines
- Provide a strong platform for high-quality agentic development across the organization
- Ensure the team delivers innovative solutions that improve visibility in continuous delivery (CD) processes
- Act as the primary advocate for platform engineering across the organization, ensuring teams have the resources and tools to stay productive
- Collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders to prioritize platform investments based on business impact
- Communicate team progress, priorities, and technical trade-offs clearly to leadership
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 build 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, all 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. Specifically, it's hired across engineering and marketing, gaining 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 are uncertain about how to actually use.
Simplifying the complex world of artificial intelligence for business is no mean feat, but with hundreds of millions in funding behind it and a $5 billion valuation reported in 2026, the company is well on its way to market domination. What's more, the three founders, who met whilst working as engineers at Gumroad, have a lot of experience in navigating this gap in the market.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2026
$300m
LATE VC
Sep 2025
$150m
SERIES D
Total funding: $585m
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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