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Software Engineer - Observability

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

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Infrastructureremote$165k–$330k
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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
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