Software Engineer - Observability

The role

You will build and shape the observability experience for internal and external customers. This involves designing telemetry ingest and storage pipelines and building instrumentation libraries across multi-cloud infrastructure.

What you will do

• Design and build scalable telemetry ingest and storage pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces
• Own and evolve core observability platforms
• Build instrumentation libraries, SDKs, and integrations
• Drive alerting and SLO infrastructure
• Partner with Inference, Product, and Infrastructure teams

Required qualifications

• Deep experience with at least one observability signal area (metrics, logging, tracing, or error analytics)
• Familiarity with other observability signal areas
• Understand high-throughput data pipelines, columnar storage engines, and telemetry data tradeoffs
• Experience operating or building on top of 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
• Interest in applying AI/LLMs to operational workflows
• Comfortable working independently on ambiguous, high-impact technical challenges

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
• 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents (U.S. only)
• Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break
• Paid parental leave
• Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
• Company-facilitated 401(k) (U.S. only)
• Exposure to a variety of ML startups

About the company

Baseten powers mission-critical inference for AI companies by uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and developer tooling. The company recently raised a $1.5B Series F.