Platform Engineer — Kubernetes, GitOps & Go/Python

Baseten; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 330,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health benefits

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

401(k)

Learning opportunities

Job summary

Baseten is seeking talented and experienced Software Engineers to join our Platform team within the Infrastructure organization. As an early member of Baseten's Platform Team, you will own the deployment platform, release pipelines, and rollout safety mechanisms that allow engineers across Baseten to deploy changes rapidly while minimizing operational risk.

Our mission is to make production deployments fast, safe, and increasingly autonomous.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Go and/or Python and production-grade software experience.
• Experience with Kubernetes-based deployments at scale.
• Experience building or operating continuous deployment platforms.
• Familiarity with GitOps tooling (ArgoCD or Flux).
• Commitment to safe production rollouts and minimizing blast radius.

Responsibilities

• Design and build continuous deployment infrastructure that safely rolls out changes across dozens of Kubernetes clusters and global regions.
• Develop systems for progressive delivery, including canary releases, staged rollouts, and automated rollback.
• Improve engineering velocity by reducing friction in the release pipeline and automating manual operational workflows.
• Work with product and infrastructure teams to ensure their services are deployable, observable, and resilient at scale.
• Implement and evolve deployment methodologies such as GitOps, infrastructure-as-code, and progressive delivery patterns.
• Build systems that automatically evaluate deployment health using metrics, logs, traces, and alerts to detect regressions and trigger safe rollbacks.
• Interest in building systems that support agent-assisted or autonomous deployment workflows using modern AI tooling.

Skills

Go

Python

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitOps

Tools

ArgoCD

Flux

Job description

Baseten is seeking talented and experienced Software Engineers to join our Platform team within the Infrastructure organization. As an early member of Baseten's Platform Team, you will own the deployment platform, release pipelines, and rollout safety mechanisms that allow engineers across Baseten to deploy changes rapidly while minimizing operational risk.

Our mission is to make production deployments fast, safe, and increasingly autonomous.