Platform Engineer: Safe, Scalable Deployments on Kubernetes

Baseten; New York (NY); On-site; USD 165,000 - 330,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Medical insurance

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

401(k)

Equity

ML startup exposure

Job summary

Baseten is seeking talented and experienced Software Engineers to join our Platform team within the Infrastructure organization. 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 focus is on elegant, scalable solutions—from monorepos and fast CI pipelines to GitOps and progressive delivery patterns.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Go and/or Python.
• Experience with Kubernetes-based deployment at scale.
• Experience building or operating CD platforms.
• Familiarity with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux.
• Commitment to safe production rollouts and minimising blast radius.
• Open-source developer tools experience is a plus.
• Ability to work independently on high-impact technical challenges.

Responsibilities

• Design and build CD infrastructure across Kubernetes clusters and regions.
• Develop progressive delivery, canary releases, staged rollouts, and automated rollback.
• Improve velocity by reducing release friction and automating workflows.
• Ensure services are deployable, observable, and resilient at scale.
• Evolve deployment methodologies such as GitOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, and progressive delivery.
• Build systems to evaluate deployment health using metrics, logs, traces, and alerts.
• Explore agent-assisted or autonomous deployment workflows using AI tooling.

Skills

Go

Python

Production rollouts

Open-source tooling

Problem solving

Independent work

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD platforms

ArgoCD

Flux

Job description

Baseten is seeking talented and experienced Software Engineers to join our Platform team within the Infrastructure organization. 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 focus is on elegant, scalable solutions—from monorepos and fast CI pipelines to GitOps and progressive delivery patterns.