Product Platform: Backend Engineer

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$165k–$330k

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Baseten Backend Engineer at Baseten focuses on building scalable backend systems and observability platforms for AI product infrastructure. Responsibilities include designing telemetry pipelines, commercialization and billing systems, and improving developer productivity.

Responsibilities

AI is being built by many companies at once. Model labs train more capable models, hyperscalers provide infrastructure and distribution, developers build new AI products, and a growing set of tools gives agents more to work with. Baseten sits at the center of all of it, as the inference platform that developers and large companies use to run AI in production.
We’re hiring a backend/distributed systems engineer to join our Product Platform in following areas:
Commercialization, billing, and partnerships
Developer productivity and agentic development
Observability platform
Please come join our growing team to work on exciting problems. A few sample projects and responsibilities will include
Design and build scalable telemetry ingest and storage pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces across Baseten’s multi-cloud infrastructure
Own and evolve core observability platforms, driving migrations and architectural improvements that improve reliability, reduce cost, and scale with organizational growth
Build world class commercialization and billing systems
Work on some of the most strategic and exciting partnership integrations
Develop internal infrastructure and tooling that improves developer velocity, CI/CD, and deployment safety.
Own the internal AI agent platform end to end — architecture, build, rollout, operation, measurement.

Qualification

Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceProficiency in PythonStrong systems-level thinkingPlatform mindset

Required

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
5+ years of relevant industry experience, with a focus on building scalable backend systems and platforms.
Experience building or operating observability systems (logging, metrics, tracing) or internal infrastructure at scale.
Proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, or a similar backend language.
A firm grasp of quality and engineering principles: you understand both the what and the why.
Strong systems-level thinking: you understand how the components of a distributed system interact and how data flows through each part.
Platform mindset: you build for adoption and self-service, treat internal engineers as customers, and would rather ship a good default than write a style guide.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

Dental
Vision
401(k)
PTO
Equity/RSU
Parental Leave

Company

Baseten

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