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Software Engineer - Inference Platform

Baseten · San Francisco · Toronto · New York · Montreal · Seattle

CHECKED 59M AGO

Infrastructureremotemid-level$180k–$360k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build distributed runtime powering large-scale LLM inference for top AI companies.
  • Own Model APIs from deployment UX to orchestration and efficient traffic routing.
  • Make every model fast, reliable, and cost-efficient at production scale.

What they offer

  • Meaningful equity (U.S. only)
  • 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage for employee and dependents
  • Flexible PTO including company-wide Winter Break
  • Paid parental leave
  • Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
  • Company-facilitated 401(k)

Ideal candidate

Product-minded distributed systems engineer who loves owning production systems end-to-end and making complex infrastructure simple, fast, and reliable for developers building with AI.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience
  • 3+ years building and operating distributed systems, backend infrastructure, or large-scale APIs
  • Proven track record owning low-latency, reliable backend services including rate limiting, auth, quotas and metering
  • Strong infrastructure instincts for profiling, tracing, capacity planning and SLO management
  • Comfort debugging performance and reliability issues across multiple layers of the stack
  • Strong sense of developer experience and excellent written communication and collaboration skills

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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