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Software Engineer - Partner Platform

Baseten· EPD
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$265k - $330kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Role focused on building the partner platform at Baseten, connecting model labs, hyperscalers, developer platforms, and AI infrastructure partners to turn partnerships into producible features and services.

Responsibilities

  • Lead strategic partner integrations from technical discovery and architecture through implementation, launch, and production operation.
  • Work directly with partner engineering teams to design APIs, define system boundaries, resolve cross-company dependencies, and make architectural decisions.
  • Write substantial production code and own the systems you build.
  • Build reusable partner-platform primitives across identity, provisioning, inference, model serving, metering, billing, and other Baseten platform capabilities.
  • Own technical delivery across Baseten and partner teams, including milestones, dependencies, risks, and architectural tradeoffs.
  • Work closely with Partnerships and Product to understand where the ecosystem is going and translate emerging opportunities into platform investments.
  • Raise the bar for integration reliability through strong API contracts, testing, observability, safe rollouts, and thoughtful failure handling.
  • Help define what Partner Engineering becomes at Baseten as both the team and our ecosystem grow.

Qualifications

  • Experience designing, shipping, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
  • A record of leading ambiguous engineering projects across teams while contributing substantial production code yourself.
  • Sound judgment about API design, service boundaries, and failure handling. Built systems that uphold API contracts and meet measurable service-level objectives.
  • Experience turning requests from customers, partners, or other engineering teams into a defined technical scope. Explain constraints, propose alternatives, and document decisions.
  • Comfort working across application code and cloud infrastructure, including debugging behavior that crosses service boundaries.

Skills

Required:Distributed systems design and operationAPI design and system boundariesProduction code ownershipTechnical discovery and scope definition

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 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 learning and networking opportunities.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Inference is everything

Effortlessly serve optimized open source & custom models on the fastest, most reliable model delivery network.

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