Software Engineer (Observability)

Salary: $165,000–$330,000 per year, plus equity

Company

Baseten provides inference infrastructure, applied AI research, and developer tooling that help AI companies deploy models in production.

What you will do

• Design and build scalable telemetry ingest and storage pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces across multi-cloud infrastructure.
• Own and evolve observability platforms through migrations and architectural improvements that increase reliability, reduce costs, and support growth.
• Build instrumentation libraries, SDKs, and integrations for high-quality service telemetry.
• Develop alerting and SLO infrastructure that helps teams monitor reliability targets with minimal noise.
• Partner with Inference, Product, and Infrastructure teams to improve operational visibility and incident response.

Requirements

• Deep experience with at least one observability area: metrics, logging, tracing, or error analytics.
• Understanding of high-throughput data pipelines, columnar storage engines, and telemetry ingestion and querying at scale.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, or similar observability systems.
• Strong proficiency in at least one of Python, Rust, or Go.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work independently on ambiguous, high-impact infrastructure challenges.
• Interest in applying AI or LLMs to root-cause analysis, anomaly detection, or intelligent alerting.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation with meaningful equity.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance fully covered for employees and dependents.
• Flexible PTO and a company-wide Winter Break.
• Paid parental leave and a fertility and family-building stipend.
• Company-facilitated 401(k).
• Exposure to a range of ML startups and related learning and networking opportunities.