Software Engineer - Infrastructure

About the role

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 https://www.baseten.co/blog/announcing-our-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:

- Multi-cloud capacity management https://www.baseten.co/blog/how-baseten-multi-cloud-capacity-management-mcm-powers-cloud-self-hosted-and-hybr/

- Inference on B200 GPUs https://www.baseten.co/blog/accelerating-inference-nvidia-b200-gpus/

- Multi-node inference https://www.baseten.co/blog/how-multi-node-inference-works-llms-deepseek-r1/

- Fractional H100 GPUs for efficient model serving https://www.baseten.co/blog/using-fractional-h100-gpus-for-efficient-model-serving/

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