Storage decides how fast agent sandboxes start and how safely they share data. Agents need a filesystem that thousands of sandboxes mount at the same time, with strict isolation and the consistency agents need. Agent context is mostly small files, so the access patterns look very different from storage built for large files.

The Agent Infra team builds Agent Drive, the distributed filesystem that agent sandboxes mount over FUSE, and the storage underneath it. The work uses tiered caching, replication, content-addressed data, and Linux filesystem internals. In September 2026, Baseten acquired Blaxel, whose sandboxes and Agent Drive filesystem are the foundation for Baseten Sandboxes.

We are building a cloud, not just using one, so storage is designed for many tenants from day one. The team is small and ownership is big: we ship in weeks and months, not multi-year programs.

If you care about page cache coherency, FUSE, replication protocols, and content-addressable storage, we'd love to talk.

EXAMPLE INITIATIVES

Blaxel is joining Baseten to build the future of agentic infrastructure

Baseten Sandboxes documentation

Design and implement core Agent Drive features: metadata replication, volume placement, garbage collection, and FUSE client behavior

Solve multi-attach correctness: cache coherency across many FUSE mounts of the same drive, dentry and inode invalidation, write ordering, and crash consistency

Optimize tail latency on read and write paths, including page cache strategy, writeback, prefetch, and metadata RPC batching

Build tenant isolation into the storage layer, including quota enforcement, blast-radius containment, and noisy-neighbor mitigation

Own the storage side of sandbox startup and resume performance

Software Engineer, Storage Systems (Agent Infra)

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Required

Preferred

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Company

Baseten

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