Software Engineer - Infrastructure at Baseten (San Francisco, CA)
Baseten· San Francisco, CA· $165k–$330k·
Role details
Equity · Medical Insurance · Dental Insurance · Vision Insurance · Flexible PTO · Company Wide Winter Break · Paid Parental Leave · Fertility And Family-Building Stipend
Baseten at a glance
AI inference platform for deploying, optimizing, and running machine learning models in production at scale.
Baseten runs trained AI models in production for other companies, handling the GPUs, autoscaling, runtime, and performance tuning so engineering teams get a fast, reliable API without operating the infrastructure themselves. It supports open source, custom, and fine tuned models across managed cloud, hybrid, and self hosted deployments.
$2B+ raised · latest: Series F · $1.5B · June 2026 (valuations of $13B and $11B across two tranches) · backed by Altimeter Capital, Conviction, Spark Capital, Sands Capital
Summary
Build and maintain components of the ML inference platform, including multi-cloud capacity management, inference on GPUs, and multi-node inference systems. The role involves developing Kubernetes deployments, implementing inference orchestration, and building monitoring systems to support production AI applications.
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 an Infrastructure Software Engineer at Baseten, you'll build and maintain components of our ML inference platform that powers production AI applications. You'll contribute to the core infrastructure, enabling developers to deploy, scale, and monitor ML models with high performance.
EXAMPLE INITIATIVES
You'll get to work on these types of projects as part of our Infrastructure team:
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop infrastructure components for our ML inference platform using Python and Go
- Implement and maintain Kubernetes deployments for model serving
- Contribute to our inference orchestration layer for model deployments
- Build and enhance monitoring systems for model performance metrics
- Implement efficient resource management solutions for ML workloads
- Support infrastructure automation to improve ML deployment workflows
- Work closely with team members to implement technical solutions
- Help balance performance optimization with system reliability
- Participate in technical discussions around infrastructure improvements
- Learn and apply infrastructure best practices
REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
- Proficient coding abilities in one or more popular programming or scripting languages; Go proficiency is a plus
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes and containerization
- Basic understanding of machine learning concepts and model serving
- Familiarity with distributed systems concepts
- Experience with basic monitoring and logging tools
- Interest in ML/AI infrastructure and willingness to learn
- 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.
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).
Why work at Baseten
- Hard Technical Problems: Engineers work on the most challenging problems in modern infrastructure—model serving, low-level GPU optimization, networking, distributed systems, and observability. This is a high-agency, high-impact engineering environment.
- High Growth Trajectory: The company is experiencing explosive growth (224% headcount increase, active hiring). This offers significant career acceleration and ownership opportunities.
- Strong Engineering Culture: Founded by engineers, for engineers. The culture emphasizes "first-principles thinking across the entire stack" and a "customer-obsessed" mindset. The employer rating on compensation, culture, and work-life balance is rated highly (5.0).
- Top-Tier Team & Investors: The team has strong talent density with hires from Meta, Stripe, Google, NVIDIA, and Databricks. Being backed by top-tier VCs provides stability and a clear long-term vision.
- Hybrid/In-Office: Based in San Francisco with a strong in-person or hybrid culture common for fast-moving infrastructure startups.