Recruit, hire, and grow a high-performing team of cloud platform engineers; provide ongoing coaching, feedback, and career development through regular 1:1s.
Set clear performance expectations, hold a high bar, and create an environment where engineers do their best work.
Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Drive day-to-day technical decisions through design reviews, code reviews, and architectural discussions; translate the infrastructure roadmap into clear team priorities and milestones, and hold execution against them.
Establish standards and best practices for reliability, performance, and operational excellence; ensure the team owns projects end-to-end, from specification through production.
Exercise and encourage good judgment on tooling and architectural tradeoffs, with a bias against unnecessary complexity.
Partner with product and engineering teams to align infrastructure work with business priorities; represent your team's progress, capacity, and technical tradeoffs clearly to leadership.
Serve as the escalation point for major incidents; drive resolution with urgency, ensure the team learns systematically, and stay connected to users so those learnings feed back into infrastructure improvements.
REQUIREMENTS
Proven experience directly managing engineers in a cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE context (not managing managers).
Extensive hands-on experience with Kubernetes, with the ability to engage credibly in architectural discussions and code reviews.
Strong background building and maintaining scalable, production infrastructure.
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi) and CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Jenkins).
Demonstrated ability to drive projects end-to-end — from specification to execution — and coach your team to do the same.
Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to influence across teams without direct authority.
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Track record of recruiting and growing engineering talent.
Openness to learning about ML infrastructure; prior machine learning experience is not required.
NICE TO HAVE
Experience with OSS observability tooling (Prometheus, ELK stack, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
Background in multi-cloud environments or GPU infrastructure.
Experience building and managing on-call rotations and incident response processes.
BENEFITS
Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break (our offices are closed from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day!)
Paid parental leave
Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
Company-facilitated 401(k)
Exposure to a variety of ML startups, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities.
Apply now to embark on a rewarding journey in shaping the future of AI! If you are a motivated individual with a passion for machine learning and a desire to be part of a collaborative and forward-thinking team, we would love to hear from you.
At Baseten, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example, the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, where applicable).
About Baseten
Technology
Baseten is an inference platform for deploying and scaling open-source and custom AI models, providing GPU infrastructure optimized for low-latency production workloads.