Software Engineer (Observability)

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco, Montreal, New York, Seattle, or Toronto

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

Company

Baseten provides applied AI research, infrastructure, and developer tooling that help AI companies bring machine learning models into 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, migrations, and architectural improvements that increase reliability, reduce costs, and support organizational growth.
• Build instrumentation libraries, SDKs, and integrations that help engineering teams emit high-quality telemetry.
• Develop alerting and SLO infrastructure that enables teams to 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 tradeoffs at scale.
• Experience with platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, or similar 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 and LLMs to root cause analysis, anomaly detection, or intelligent alerting.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation with meaningful equity.
• U.S. employees and dependents receive full medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
• Flexible PTO and a company-wide Winter Break from Christmas Eve through New Year's Day.
• Paid parental leave and a fertility and family-building stipend.
• Company-facilitated 401(k) for U.S. employees.
• Exposure to ML startups and opportunities for learning and networking.