Software Engineer - Observability
Baseten · San Francisco · Toronto · New York · Montreal · Seattle
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Infrastructureremote$165k–$330k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build high-throughput ingest pipelines for metrics, logs and traces.
- Create agentic diagnostic tools to resolve incidents in minutes.
- Power observability for mission-critical AI inference at scale.
What they offer
- 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
- Paid parental leave
- Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot (U.S. only)
- Company-facilitated 401(k)
Ideal candidate
Experienced infrastructure builder who thrives on ambiguous, high-impact problems and cares deeply about reliability. Collaborative and curious, excited to improve operational excellence and explore AI for diagnostics.
Requirements
- Deep experience with at least one observability signal area (metrics, logging, tracing, or error analytics) and familiarity with the others
- Understand high-throughput data pipelines, columnar storage engines, and tradeoffs in ingesting and querying telemetry at scale
- Experience operating or building on top of observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, or similar
- Strong proficiency in at least one of Python, Rust, or Go
- Excellent communication skills and enjoy partnering with internal teams to improve visibility and incident response
- Interest in applying AI/LLMs to operational workflows such as root cause analysis, anomaly detection, or intelligent alerting
- Excited about building foundational infrastructure and comfortable working independently on ambiguous, high-impact challenges
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