Engineering Manager, Cloud Platform

Baseten
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 165,000 - 330,000 annuallyFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Mentoring","Problem-solving","Team management"]

Lead Baseten’s Cloud Platform team to design, build, and operate scalable production infrastructure. You’ll coach engineers, drive architectural decisions, ensure reliability, and align infrastructure work with product goals while partnering with cross-functional teams to support ML deployment and platform reliability at scale.

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Baseten
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Engineering Manager, Cloud Platform

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Job Summary

Lead Baseten’s Cloud Platform team to design, build, and operate scalable production infrastructure. You’ll coach engineers, drive architectural decisions, ensure reliability, and align infrastructure work with product goals while partnering with cross-functional teams to support ML deployment and platform reliability at scale.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Recruit, hire, and grow a high-performing team of cloud platform engineers; provide ongoing coaching, feedback, and career development through regular 1:1s.
  • •Set clear performance expectations, hold a high bar, and create an environment where engineers do their best work.
  • •Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
  • •Drive day-to-day technical decisions through design reviews, code reviews, and architectural discussions; translate the infrastructure roadmap into clear team priorities and milestones, and hold execution against them.
  • •Establish standards and best practices for reliability, performance, and operational excellence; ensure the team owns projects end-to-end, from specification through production.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 165,000 - 330,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kPaid ParentalPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Proven experience directly managing engineers in a cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE context (not managing managers).
  • •Extensive hands-on experience with Kubernetes, with the ability to engage credibly in architectural discussions and code reviews.
  • •Strong background building and maintaining scalable, production infrastructure.
  • •Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi) and CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Jenkins).
  • •Demonstrated ability to drive projects end-to-end — from specification to execution — and coach your team to do the same.
Experience:Cloud infrastructureSREKubernetesInfrastructure-as-codeCI/CD
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationMentoringProblem-solvingTeam management
Tech Stack:KubernetesTerraformCloudFormationPulumiGitHub ActionsGitLab CICircleCIJenkins

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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