Software Engineer (Partner Platform)

• The AI ecosystem is being built by many companies at once: model labs creating increasingly capable models, hyperscalers providing infrastructure and distribution, developers building new AI products, and a growing ecosystem of tools that agents can use
• Baseten sits at the center of that ecosystem as the inference platform developers use to run AI in production. Partner Engineering is how we connect those worlds
• As one of the first engineers focused on Partner Engineering at Baseten, you’ll build the technical foundation behind some of our most strategic relationships. You’ll work directly with engineers at leading model labs, hyperscalers, developer platforms, and AI infrastructure companies to turn partnerships into products developers can actually use
• You don’t need a previous partner engineering title. We want an engineer who enjoys working directly with another company’s technical team and carrying the resulting product decisions into production at Baseten
• Bring new capabilities into Baseten. Integrate a search or developer-tools provider into Baseten so an agent can call the service during inference, with consistent authentication, execution, failure handling, observability, and usage reporting
• Take Baseten into new distribution channels. Integrate Baseten with a hyperscaler, cloud marketplace, or developer platform so customers can discover models, provision access, and run inference through a partner’s product while Baseten handles the underlying serving infrastructure
• Launch models with leading model labs. Build the infrastructure that lets developers discover and run a model lab’s newest models on Baseten, including access controls, usage attribution, metering, and the systems required to support commercial agreements such as revenue sharing
• Create the partner platform itself. Identify the primitives common across these integrations and turn them into reusable platform capabilities so we can launch increasingly sophisticated partnerships without reinventing the stack every time
• 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

Benefits

• Remote-first work environment. The Baseten team is welcome to work from wherever they want; fully remote, in our San Francisco office, or a mix of both. Today, our team (including our founding team) is spread across the United States, Canada, and Armenia. We provide a $1,000 stipend for you to make your home-office comfortable and productive
• Regular in-person team summits. We get together as a team three times a year to plan, workshop, and most importantly, get to know each other better
• Unlimited PTO. We ask that everyone take at least 4 weeks of vacation. And we have a company-wide break between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Full healthcare coverage. Medical, dental and vision insurance for you and your family
• Paid parental leave. 16-weeks fully paid parental leave (adoptive and non-birth parents included) and flexibility with schedules while returning to work
• Company-sponsored 401(k) for you to contribute to
• Learning and development budget. We encourage you to take classes, attend conferences, and invest in your craft and we’ll cover expenses to make it happen- Comfort working across application code and cloud infrastructure, including debugging behavior that crosses service boundaries
• Sound judgment about API design, service boundaries, and failure handling. You’ve built systems that uphold API contracts and meet measurable service-level objectives that customers and partners depend on
• A record of leading ambiguous engineering projects across teams while contributing substantial production code yourself
• Experience designing, shipping, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production. You can explain the architectural choices you made and how they meet customers’ needs at scale
• Experience turning requests from customers, partners, or other engineering teams into a defined technical scope. You can explain a constraint, propose an alternative, and document the decision
• Product integrations with cloud providers, developer platforms, or other infrastructure companies
• Model serving or other artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure used in production
• Usage metering, marketplace infrastructure, or commerce systems that support relationships among multiple parties