Software Engineer - Continuous Delivery

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

Fertility stipend

401(k)

ML startup exposure

Job summary

Baseten is hiring Platform engineers to own the deployment platform, release pipelines, and rollout safety across multiple Kubernetes clusters and regions. You will build scalable CI/CD infrastructure, implement canary and progressive delivery, and reduce friction in the release process.

You’ll emphasize GitOps practices with ArgoCD/Flux, safe rollouts, and autonomous deployment workflows, while collaborating with product and infra teams to keep services observable and resilient.

Qualifications

• Strong-level proficiency in Go and/or Python.
• Experience with Kubernetes-based deployment systems at scale.
• Experience building or operating continuous deployment platforms.
• Familiar with GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD or Flux.
• Care deeply about safe production rollouts and minimizing blast radius.
• Excellent developer tool culture with best practices; open-source tools nice to have.
• Autonomous and capable of tackling high-impact technical challenges.

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 pipelines

GitOps

ArgoCD

Flux

Automation

Tools

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

Flux

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 to ship AI products.

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 to ship AI products.

THE ROLE

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 be pivotal in building internal infrastructure to support our engineering 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 mission is to make production deployments fast, safe, and increasingly autonomous.

If you are passionate about elegant solutions—like streamlined monorepos, lightning-fast CI pipelines, and thoughtfully designed shared libraries—you'll thrive at Baseten.

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.

Requirements

• Strong-level proficiency in Go and/or Python.
• Have worked with Kubernetes-based deployment systems at scale.
• Have experience building or operating continuous deployment platforms.
• Are familiar with GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD or Flux.
• Care deeply about safe production rollouts and minimizing blast radius.
• Excellent developer tool culture with a focus on best practices. Bonus points if you have personally developed open-source developer tools.
• Are excited about building foundational infrastructure and are comfortable working independently on ambiguous, high-impact technical challenges.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity.
• 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.
• 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