Senior Backend Platform Engineer — Observability & Billing

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

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.