Software Engineer - Observability

Baseten is an AI inference platform for deploying, optimizing, and scaling custom, open-source, and fine-tuned models in production.

San Francisco, United States
About Baseten

Baseten provides model runtimes, inference infrastructure, developer workflows, and deployment options including managed cloud, self-hosted, and hybrid environments.

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About the Role

You will design scalable telemetry ingest and storage pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces across multi-cloud infrastructure. You will evolve observability platforms, build instrumentation libraries and integrations, improve alerting and SLO infrastructure, and partner with engineering teams to improve operational visibility.

Requirements

  • Experience with at least one observability signal area, including metrics, logging, tracing, or error analytics
  • Knowledge of high-throughput data pipelines and columnar storage engines
  • Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, or similar observability systems
  • Proficiency in Python, Rust, or Go
  • Communication skills
  • Interest in applying AI and LLMs to operational workflows

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable telemetry ingest and storage pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces
  • Own and evolve core observability platforms
  • Build instrumentation libraries, SDKs, and integrations
  • Drive alerting and SLO infrastructure
  • Partner with Inference, Product, and Infrastructure teams on observability solutions

Benefits

  • Equity
  • 100% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for U.S. employees and dependents
  • Flexible PTO
  • Company-wide Winter Break
  • Paid parental leave
  • Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
  • Company-facilitated 401(k) for U.S. employees
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