Observability Engineer: Scale Telemetry & Reliability

Baseten; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Full health coverage

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Fertility stipend

401(k)

ML startup exposure

Job summary

Baseten is seeking talented Software Engineers to join our Observability team within the Infrastructure organization. As an early member of the Observability Team, you will be pivotal in building and shaping the observability experience for our internal and external customers.

By joining this team, you’ll have a direct impact on the reliability and operational excellence of Baseten’s product systems. As Baseten scales its infrastructure across different cloud providers and diverse hardware, the

Qualifications

• Experience with at least one observability signal area.
• Understanding of high-throughput data pipelines and columnar storage.
• Experience operating or building on Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or Rust.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Interest in applying AI/LLMs to observability workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable telemetry ingest and storage pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces across Baseten’s multi-cloud infrastructure.
• Own and evolve core observability platforms, driving migrations and architectural improvements that improve reliability, reduce cost, and scale with organizational growth.
• Build instrumentation libraries, SDKs, and integrations that make it easy for engineering teams to emit high-quality telemetry from their services.
• Drive alerting and SLO infrastructure that enables teams to define, monitor, and respond to reliability targets with minimal noise.
• Partner with Inference, Product, and Infrastructure teams to ensure observability solutions meet the unique needs of each organization.

Skills

Observability signals

Python/Go/Rust

Communication

AI/LLMs in ops

Independent work

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

ClickHouse

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Baseten is seeking talented Software Engineers to join our Observability team within the Infrastructure organization. As an early member of the Observability Team, you will be pivotal in building and shaping the observability experience for our internal and external customers.

By joining this team, you’ll have a direct impact on the reliability and operational excellence of Baseten’s product systems. As Baseten scales its infrastructure across different cloud providers and diverse hardware, the