Software Engineer - Compute and Isolation
Baseten · San Francisco · New York
Infrastructureremote$165k–$330k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own sandbox start, stop, snapshot, fork, and resume for AI agents at scale.
- Build the computers AI agents run on, from kernels down to datacenter design.
- Ship fast on a small team owning multi-tenant isolation as security boundary.
What they offer
- 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
- Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break
- Paid parental leave
- Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot (U.S. only)
- Company-facilitated 401(k)
Ideal candidate
Low-level systems builder who loves owning hard infrastructure end to end on a small, fast-moving team and cares about performance and isolation down to the hardware for AI agents.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with KVM, plus Firecracker, Cloud Hypervisor, or QEMU
- Deep understanding of Linux internals: namespaces, cgroups, memory management, and the boot path
- Experience building cloud infrastructure as the provider (multi-tenant compute that customers run on), not only running workloads on a cloud provider
- Experience building multi-tenant infrastructure where isolation is a security boundary
- Strong systems programming background in Rust and/or Go; C/C++ also welcome
- Experience debugging performance and correctness problems across userspace and kernel boundaries
- You move fast and like owning a problem end to end on a small team
Lab profile
About Baseten
Powers mission-critical AI inference to bring cutting-edge models into production.
What they build
- Mission-critical inference platform
- Flexible infrastructure for production models
- Developer tooling for AI deployment
Known for
- Applied AI research
- Flexible infrastructure
- Seamless developer tooling
Key facts
- Raised Series F
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