Partner Platform Engineer — Lead Scalable Integrations

Baseten; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation with equity

US medical, dental, and vision

Flexible PTO and company winter break

Paid parental leave

401(k) company-facilitated (US)

Exposure to ML startups and learning

Job summary

Baseten is seeking an early Partner Engineer to shape integrations with model labs, hyperscalers, and developer platforms, turning partnerships into usable products for developers.

You will build the foundations for partner integrations, collaborate with engineering teams across companies, and own the delivery of critical platform capabilities with strong API contracts and observability.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, shipping, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
• A record of leading 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 service-level objectives.
• 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

Production code

APIs design

Cross-team leadership

Cloud infrastructure

Job description

Baseten is seeking an early Partner Engineer to shape integrations with model labs, hyperscalers, and developer platforms, turning partnerships into usable products for developers.

You will build the foundations for partner integrations, collaborate with engineering teams across companies, and own the delivery of critical platform capabilities with strong API contracts and observability.