Software Engineer - Enterprise Platform
At a glance
Mid-level Software Engineering role at Baseten. San Francisco · full-time · $165,000–$330,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Drive complex engineering work from defining the problem through design, release, and follow-up improvements
- Build enterprise platform features such as access controls, billing, compliance management, and private connectivity
- Choose system designs that meet customer needs while keeping services scalable and maintainable
- Turn customer feedback into product requirements with product, design, and customer-facing partners
- Set expectations for secure, observable, reliable engineering and mentor teammates on design and delivery
What you bring
- You have built enterprise software in areas such as access management, billing, tenant isolation, or compliance
- You can lead technical projects, run systems at scale, and work with customers to understand their needs
- You are comfortable developing across application code and cloud or Kubernetes infrastructure
Who this fits
This mid-level role suits an engineer ready to lead technical initiatives and mentor teammates while working across the full stack. The position is based in San Francisco and is hybrid.
From the employer
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, led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products.
THE ROLE
The largest, most demanding enterprises are starting to run on Baseten, and they arrive with a range of security, compliance, and procurement requirements. As an Engineer on Baseten's enterprise engineering team, you'll build the capabilities that enable large organizations like Writer, HubSpot, and Notion to succeed on Baseten. Enterprise engineering authors the core building blocks, APIs, and user experiences powering the Baseten platform: identity and access management, billing, regional isolation, and self-hosted and single-tenant deployment options.
This is deep product and systems work across the full stack, from designing authentication and authorization systems using standards like OAuth and OIDC to shipping the admin experiences enterprise IT teams use to manage their organization.
EXAMPLE INITIATIVES
Recent and upcoming work on the team:
Fine-grained authorization for users, service accounts, and agentic workloads
SSO and SCIM support, allowing customers to centralize and automate access to Baseten
Expanding the billing platform to support evolving pricing models, advanced data exports, and controls to manage spend
In-product management and enforcement of customer compliance requirements like data residency and HIPAA
Securing network paths in and out of a customer's models with private connectivity and ingress and egress restrictions
Allowing customers to run Baseten inside their own VPC, on-prem, or a dedicated single-tenant environment
RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead complex, ambiguous engineering initiatives from problem definition and technical design through implementation, launch, and iteration.
Make thoughtful architectural decisions, balancing near-term customer needs with long-term simplicity, scalability, and maintainability.
Partner with product, design, and customer-facing teams to translate user feedback and requests into product requirements and durable technical solutions.
Establish strong engineering practices for quality, security, observability, and operational ownership.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship, helping teammates grow while raising the quality of design and execution across the team.
REQUIREMENTS
Experience building enterprise software, including work on one or more of: identity and access management, billing systems, multi-tenant isolation controls, private connectivity, or compliance program initiatives.
Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects, develop and operate systems running at scale, and collaborate with customers to understand their needs.
Comfort working across the full stack, from product and application code to cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure.
Preferred: Experience building AI or data-intensive infrastructure products.
BENEFITS
Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
(U.S. only) 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
(U.S. only) 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).
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