Global Capacity Manager
Hybrid (San Francisco)$170k - $230kFull-timePosted 7mo ago
About the role
Lead the end-to-end capacity management of Baseten's global GPU fleet, architecting, securing, and optimizing multi-cloud infrastructure to power customer AI workloads with high uptime and elite unit economics.
Responsibilities
- Lead Specialized Pods: Act as the lead for specific GPU pods (e.g., H100 or B200), managing the full lifecycle of acquisition, air traffic control, and maintenance for those assets.
- Advanced Orchestration: Execute complex workload migrations and "sticky" deployment drains, ensuring deployment scheduling rules meet strict regional and compliance requirements.
- Build for Scalability: Design and implement the "next version" of Baseten’s capacity management system to handle a 10x increase in GPU volume. Financial Modeling: Leverage your understanding of unit economics to build ROI models for GPU spend, ensuring Baseten scales profitably.
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with SRE, Infra, and FDE teams to take discrete operational tasks off their plate and verify "last mile" follow-through on infrastructure changes.
- Incident Response: Lead capacity-crunch response by rapidly untainting and re-coordinating workloads during high-pressure outages.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- 5+ years of professional work experience in a high-growth environment, preferably at a hyperscaler (GCP, AWS, Azure) or a specialized GPU provider
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes, including hands-on experience with taints, cordons, node draining, and custom operators
- Demonstrated experience with Go or Python in a production-level environment
- Strong financial literacy and the ability to model complex trade-offs between capacity reliability and cost
- High tenacity and collaborative mindset
Skills
Required:KubernetesGo or Python
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 (office 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.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Baseten
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