Software Engineer - Billing & Internal Tooling

Baseten; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 330,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Carrot stipend

401(k)

ML startup exposure

Job summary

Baseten is hiring a Software Engineer in San Francisco to own pricing, billing, and revenue infrastructure. You will shape the platform, drive reliable tooling, and partner with Finance, Sales, and GTM to align billing with growth.

You’ll build scalable systems, ensure auditability, and collaborate across teams to deliver a seamless customer experience.

Qualifications

• Experience with billing systems or building internal tools.
• Deep knowledge of the web stack and databases.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own Baseten’s end-to-end billing and revenue infrastructure, including pricing, invoicing, metering, and reporting foundations.
• Build and evolve our billing platform and integrations (including Orb), ensuring correctness, auditability, and a high-trust experience for customers and internal teams.
• Partner with Finance, Sales, GTM, and Forward Deployed Engineering to translate real-world workflows into reliable internal tooling and automation.
• Design systems that scale with new products and go-to-market motions, making billing a strategic lever for growth.
• Drive reliability and operational excellence for revenue-critical workflows: monitoring, alerting, incident response, backfills, and runbooks.
• Lead high-impact projects: clarify requirements, propose technical approaches, ship iteratively, raise quality and velocity.
• Debug production issues and communicate with stakeholders to close the loop with fixes.

Skills

Billing systems

Web stack

Databases

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in CS or related field

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

As a Software Engineer at Baseten, you will own one of the most critical surfaces of our business: pricing, billing, and revenue infrastructure. As we launch more and more products— billing is no longer just operational plumbing. It is a strategic lever for growth. This role will establish clear ownership of billing as a function and create leverage for Finance, Sales, and GTM teams while maintaining a seamless customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Own Baseten’s end-to-end billing and revenue infrastructure, including pricing, invoicing, metering, and reporting foundations.
• Build and evolve our billing platform and integrations (including Orb), ensuring correctness, auditability, and a high-trust experience for customers and internal teams.
• Partner closely with Finance, Sales, GTM, and Forward Deployed Engineering to turn real-world workflows into reliable internal tooling and automation (quoting, approvals, renewals, usage reconciliation, revenue reporting).
• Design systems that scale with new products, packaging, and go‑to‑market motions, making billing a strategic lever for growth.
• Drive reliability and operational excellence for revenue‑critical workflows: monitoring, alerting, incident response, backfills, and clear runbooks.
• Lead from the front on high-impact projects: clarify requirements, propose crisp technical approaches, ship iteratively, and raise the bar on quality and velocity.
• Debug and resolve production issues with urgency, communicating clearly with stakeholders and closing the loop with durable fixes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
• Experience with billing systems or building internal tools
• Deep knowledge of the web stack & databases
• Strong collaboration and 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