Product Platform: Backend Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and equity

US health benefits (medical, dental, &

Vision through Baseten

Flexible PTO including Winter Break

Paid parental leave

401(k)

Exposure to ML startups

Job summary

Baseten is hiring a backend/distributed systems engineer to join our Product Platform. You will design and scale telemetry pipelines, own observability platforms, and build billing and partnerships infrastructure across multi-cloud environments.

Collaborate with infrastructure, model performance, and product teams to ship fast, improve reliability, and raise developer velocity. A strong systems background, passion for scale, and clear technical writing are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of relevant industry experience building scalable backend systems and platforms.
• Experience building or operating observability systems (logging, metrics, tracing) or internal infrastructure at scale.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, or a similar backend language.
• Strong systems-level thinking and platform mindset.

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 world class commercialization and billing systems.
• Work on strategic partnership integrations with cross-functional teams.
• Develop internal infrastructure and tooling to improve developer velocity, CI/CD, and deployment safety.
• Own Baseten's internal AI agent platform end to end — architecture, build, rollout, operation, measurement.

Skills

Python/Go/Rust

Backend experience

Observability systems

Distributed systems thinking

Excellent communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Logging

Metrics

Tracing

Job description

About Baseten

Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F, led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products.

THE ROLE

AI is being built by many companies at once. Model labs train more capable models, hyperscalers provide infrastructure and distribution, developers build new AI products, and a growing set of tools gives agents more to work with. Baseten sits at the center of all of it, as the inference platform that developers and large companies use to run AI in production.

We’re hiring a backend/distributed systems engineer to join our Product Platform in following areas:

• Commercialization, billing, and partnerships
• Developer productivity and agentic development
• Observability platform

Please come join our growing team to work on exciting problems. A few sample projects and responsibilities will include

• 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 world class commercialization and billing systems
• Work on some of the most strategic and exciting partnership integrations
• Develop internal infrastructure and tooling that improves developer velocity, CI/CD, and deployment safety.
• Own the internal AI agent platform end to end — architecture, build, rollout, operation, measurement.
• Own Baseten's testing strategy end to end — define the standards, the tiers, and the tooling that engineering teams build against.
• Drive adoption through developer experience — good defaults, clear docs, low friction — not mandate.
• Improve platform reliability through better alerting, incident tooling, and production debugging workflows.
• Lead technical design for cross-team projects and make sound tradeoffs between speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.
• Partner with infrastructure, model performance, and product teams to understand what they need to see and ship faster.
• Raise the engineering bar through code review, mentorship, and clear technical writing.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of relevant industry experience, with a focus on building scalable backend systems and platforms.
• Experience building or operating observability systems (logging, metrics, tracing) or internal infrastructure at scale.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, or a similar backend language.
• A firm grasp of quality and engineering principles: you understand both the what and the why.
• Strong systems-level thinking: you understand how the components of a distributed system interact and how data flows through each part.
• Platform mindset: you build for adoption and self-service, treat internal engineers as customers, and would rather ship a good default than write a style guide.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
• (U.S. only) 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
• Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break (our offices are closed from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day!)
• Paid parental leave
• Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
• (U.S. only) Company-facilitated 401(k)
• Exposure to a variety of ML startups, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities.

At Baseten, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example, the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, where applicable).

Compensation Range: $165K - $330K