Partner Platform Engineer — AI Integrations & APIs, Equity

Baseten; Montreal; On-site; CAD 231,000 - 462,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity

Healthcare benefits (US)

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Job summary

Baseten is seeking an early engineer to join Partner Engineering, building the foundation behind strategic collaborations with model labs, hyperscalers, and AI infrastructure companies. You will design APIs, own critical delivery, and ship reusable platform primitives that scale partnerships into production.

You’ll collaborate with partner teams and Baseten product groups to align roadmap investments with ecosystem needs, raise integration reliability, and help shape the future of Baseten’s

Qualifications

• Experience designing, shipping, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Proven ability to lead ambiguous engineering projects across teams while contributing substantial production code yourself.
• Sound judgment about API design, service boundaries, and failure handling. You’ve built systems that uphold API contracts and meet measurable SLAs.
• Experience turning requests from customers, partners, or other engineering teams into a defined technical scope.
• Comfort working across application code and cloud infrastructure, including debugging behavior that crosses service boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic partner integrations from technical discovery and architecture through implementation, launch, and production operation.
• Work directly with partner engineering teams to design APIs, define system boundaries, resolve cross-company dependencies, and make architectural decisions.
• Write substantial production code and own the systems you build.
• Build reusable partner-platform primitives across identity, provisioning, inference, model serving, metering, billing, and other Baseten platform capabilities.
• Own technical delivery across Baseten and partner teams, including milestones, dependencies, risks, and architectural tradeoffs.
• Work closely with Partnerships and Product to understand where the ecosystem is going and translate emerging opportunities into platform investments.
• Raise the bar for integration reliability through strong API contracts, testing, observability, safe rollouts, and thoughtful failure handling.
• Help define what Partner Engineering becomes at Baseten as both the team and our ecosystem grow.

Skills

Distributed systems

API design

Cross-team leadership

Production-grade code

Cloud infrastructure

Job description

Baseten is seeking an early engineer to join Partner Engineering, building the foundation behind strategic collaborations with model labs, hyperscalers, and AI infrastructure companies. You will design APIs, own critical delivery, and ship reusable platform primitives that scale partnerships into production.

You’ll collaborate with partner teams and Baseten product groups to align roadmap investments with ecosystem needs, raise integration reliability, and help shape the future of Baseten’s