Software Engineer - Observability

Baseten
San Francisco, Toronto, New York, Montreal
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 165,000 - 330,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Independent problem-solving"]

Build and evolve Baseten’s observability platform for internal and external customers. You’ll design scalable telemetry ingest and storage pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces across multi-cloud infrastructure, drive migrations and architecture improvements to improve reliability and cost, and create instrumentation libraries and integrations. You’ll also implement alerting and SLO infrastructure with low noise, partnering across Inference, Product, and Infrastructure teams.

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Software Engineer - Observability

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Job Summary

Build and evolve Baseten’s observability platform for internal and external customers. You’ll design scalable telemetry ingest and storage pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces across multi-cloud infrastructure, drive migrations and architecture improvements to improve reliability and cost, and create instrumentation libraries and integrations. You’ll also implement alerting and SLO infrastructure with low noise, partnering across Inference, Product, and Infrastructure teams.
Location: San Francisco, Toronto, New York, Montreal
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and build scalable telemetry ingest and storage pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces across multi-cloud infrastructure.
  • •Own and evolve core observability platforms, including migrations and architectural improvements to improve reliability and reduce cost.
  • •Build instrumentation libraries, SDKs, and integrations that help engineering teams emit high-quality telemetry.
  • •Drive alerting and SLO infrastructure so teams can define, monitor, and respond to reliability targets with minimal noise.
  • •Partner with Inference, Product, and Infrastructure teams to ensure observability solutions meet their needs.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 165,000 - 330,000 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionParental Leave401k

Key Requirements

  • •Deep experience in at least one observability signal area (metrics, logging, tracing, or error analytics) and familiarity with the others.
  • •Experience with high-throughput data pipelines and the tradeoffs of ingesting and querying telemetry at scale.
  • •Experience operating or building observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, or similar systems.
  • •Strong proficiency in at least one of Python, Rust, or Go.
  • •Excellent communication skills and interest in applying AI/LLMs to operational workflows like automated root-cause analysis and intelligent alerting.
Experience:ObservabilityMulti-cloudAIAI/LLMs
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationIndependent problem-solving
Tech Stack:PythonRustGoPrometheusGrafanaClickHouseOpenTelemetryMetricsLogsTracesSLOsSLIs

Company Brief

Baseten
Baseten provides an inference-first ML infrastructure platform that lets engineering and ML teams deploy, serve, and scale machine-learning models with optimized performance, autoscaling, and GPU-backed hosting for production AI applications. ([crunchbase.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/baseten?utm_source=openai))
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2019
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