Software Engineer - Enterprise Platform

BaseTen; New York, San Francisco (NY, CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance for

Dependent coverage

Flexible PTO incl. Winter Break

Paid parental leave

Fertility and family-building stipend

401(k)

Exposure to ML startups

Job summary

Baseten is seeking a Senior Engineer for enterprise engineering to build IAM, billing, multi-tenant isolation, and deployment options across the Baseten platform. You will work on authentication, authorization, and admin experiences used by large customers and partners.

You'll lead complex initiatives, shape architecture, mentor teammates, and collaborate with product, design, and customer teams to deliver durable technical solutions at scale.

Qualifications

• Experience building enterprise software across identity and access management, billing, multi-tenant isolation, private connectivity, or compliance programs.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects, scale systems, and collaborate with customers to understand needs.
• Comfort across the full stack—from product/application code to cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Preferred: Experience building AI or data-intensive infrastructure products.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, ambiguous engineering initiatives from problem definition and technical design through implementation, launch, and iteration.
• Make thoughtful architectural decisions balancing near-term customer needs with long-term simplicity, scalability, and maintainability.
• Partner with product, design, and customer-facing teams to translate user feedback into product requirements and durable technical solutions.
• Establish strong engineering practices for quality, security, observability, and operational ownership.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship, helping teammates grow while raising design and execution quality.

Skills

Enterprise software

Technical leadership

Full stack development

Cloud and Kubernetes

AI/data infrastructure

Tools

Kubernetes

OAuth/OIDC

Billing platforms

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.

THE ROLE

The largest, most demanding enterprises are starting to run on Baseten, and they arrive with a range of security, compliance, and procurement requirements. As a Senior Engineer on Baseten's enterprise engineering team, you'll build the capabilities that enable large organizations like Writer, HubSpot, and Notion to succeed on Baseten. Enterprise engineering authors the core building blocks, APIs, and user experiences powering the Baseten platform: identity and access management, billing, regional isolation, and self‑hosted and single‑tenant deployment options.

This is deep product and systems work across the full stack, from designing authentication and authorization systems using standards like OAuth and OIDC to shipping the admin experiences enterprise IT teams use to manage their organization.

EXAMPLE INITIATIVES

Recent and upcoming work on the team:

• Fine‑grained authorization for users, service accounts, and agentic workloads
• SSO and SCIM support, allowing customers to centralize and automate access to Baseten
• Expanding the billing platform to support evolving pricing models, advanced data exports, and controls to manage spend
• In‑product management and enforcement of customer compliance requirements like data residency and HIPAA
• Securing network paths in and out of a customer's models with private connectivity and ingress and egress restrictions
• Allowing customers to run Baseten inside their own VPC, on‑prem, or a dedicated single‑tenant environment

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead complex, ambiguous engineering initiatives from problem definition and technical design through implementation, launch, and iteration.
• Make thoughtful architectural decisions, balancing near‑term customer needs with long‑term simplicity, scalability, and maintainability.
• Partner with product, design, and customer‑facing teams to translate user feedback and requests into product requirements and durable technical solutions.
• Establish strong engineering practices for quality, security, observability, and operational ownership.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship, helping teammates grow while raising the quality of design and execution across the team.

REQUIREMENTS

• Experience building enterprise software, including work on one or more of: identity and access management, billing systems, multi‑tenant isolation controls, private connectivity, or compliance program initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects, develop and operate systems running at scale, and collaborate with customers to understand their needs.
• Comfort working across the full stack, from product and application code to cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Preferred: Experience building AI or data‑intensive infrastructure products.

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.

Apply now to embark on a rewarding journey in shaping the future of AI! If you are a motivated individual with a passion for machine learning and a desire to be part of a collaborative and forward‑thinking team, we would love to hear from you.

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).