What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer - Enterprise Platform position at Baseten?
About Baseten
Baseten powers inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like OpenEvidence, Clay, Mirage, Gamma, Sourcegraph, Writer, Abridge, Bland, and Zed. 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. With our recent $150M Series D funding, backed by investors including BOND, IVP, Spark Capital, Greylock, and Conviction, we’re scaling our team to meet accelerating customer demand.
THE ROLE
As a Senior Enterprise Platform Engineer at Baseten, you'll architect and lead development of infrastructure and platform features for our enterprise customers and cloud partners. This includes enabling self-hosted and single tenant clusters, region-aware request routing, enterprise-grade data and security integrations, and more.
EXAMPLE INITIATIVES
You'll get to work on these types of projects as part of our Infrastructure team:
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.
Baseten powers inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like OpenEvidence, Clay, Mirage, Gamma, Sourcegraph, Writer, Abridge, Bland, and Zed. 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. With our recent $150M Series D funding, backed by investors including BOND, IVP, Spark Capital, Greylock, and Conviction, we’re scaling our team to meet accelerating customer demand.
THE ROLE
As a Senior Enterprise Platform Engineer at Baseten, you'll architect and lead development of infrastructure and platform features for our enterprise customers and cloud partners. This includes enabling self-hosted and single tenant clusters, region-aware request routing, enterprise-grade data and security integrations, and more.
EXAMPLE INITIATIVES
You'll get to work on these types of projects as part of our Infrastructure team:
- Multi-cloud capacity management
- Inference on B200 GPUs
- Multi-node inference
- Fractional H100 GPUs for efficient model serving
- Architect and develop infrastructure and platform features tailored for enterprise customers, including self-hosted clusters, single-tenant environments, and cross-cloud workload orchestration.
- Lead technical initiatives to productize secure and scalable private connectivity solutions.
- Design and implement solutions addressing the complex regulatory and compliance requirements of our customers, including data residency, auditability, and enterprise data protection.
- Advance our self-hosted infrastructure offerings, focusing on capacity management, release management, and observability tooling.
- Collaborate on partner-focused initiatives to deliver secure, minimal Baseten deployments within partner environments.
- Evaluate and implement emerging virtualization technologies to enhance platform isolation and security.
- Independently develop technical specifications, collaborate cross-functionally to define product requirements, and drive projects from conception through execution.
- Provide mentorship and leadership on enterprise infrastructure best practices, fostering knowledge-sharing across engineering teams.
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
- 5 years of experience building distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or Kubernetes-based solutions in production environments
- Past experience working with enterprise security, compliance, and privacy requirements
- Advanced understanding of distributed systems concepts, cloud architectures, and performance optimization
- Demonstrated ability to independently manage technical projects, from planning and specification through implementation
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with experience coordinating across functional teams and directly with customers
- Preferred experience working with AI/ML systems or familiarity with MLOps practices
- Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity.
- 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
- Generous PTO policy including company wide Winter Break (our offices are closed from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day!)
- Paid parental leave
- 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.
