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Software Engineer - Observability

Baseten· EPD
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Hybrid (San Francisco), Hybrid (Toronto), Hybrid (New York), Hybrid (Montreal), Hybrid (Seattle)$165k - $330k + equityFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Software Engineer on Baseten's Observability team within Infrastructure, building high-throughput telemetry pipelines, observability platforms, and tooling to monitor and improve reliability as the product scales across multi-cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable telemetry ingest and storage pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces across Baseten’s multi-cloud infrastructure
  • Own and evolve core observability platforms, driving migrations and architectural improvements that improve reliability, reduce cost, and scale with organizational growth
  • Build instrumentation libraries, SDKs, and integrations that make it easy for engineering teams to emit high-quality telemetry from their services
  • Drive alerting and SLO infrastructure that enables teams to define, monitor, and respond to reliability targets with minimal noise
  • Partner with Inference, Product, and Infrastructure teams to ensure observability solutions meet the unique needs of each organization

Qualifications

  • Have deep experience with at least one observability signal area (metrics, logging, tracing, or error analytics) and familiarity with the others
  • Understand high-throughput data pipelines, columnar storage engines, and the tradeoffs involved in ingesting and querying telemetry data at scale
  • Have experience operating or building on top of observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, or similar systems
  • Have strong proficiency in at least one of Python, Rust, or Go
  • Have excellent communication skills and enjoy partnering with internal teams to improve their operational visibility and incident response capabilities
  • Interest in applying AI/LLMs to operational workflows such as automated root cause analysis, anomaly detection, or intelligent alerting
  • Are excited about building foundational infrastructure and are comfortable working independently on ambiguous, high-impact technical challenges

Skills

Required:Telemetry ingestObservability platformsProgrammingCollaboration
Nice to have:SRE/Incident response

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 (offices 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.
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