Baseten
Engineering Manager, Runtime - Storage
$165K–$330K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
About the job
Lead the Storage Products team building and operating storage, caching, and delivery systems for AI inference workloads, while staying involved in design and code review.
What you'll do
- Hire, develop, and manage a team of 5 to 10 systems engineers; lead planning, delivery, and on-call health.
- Guide the architecture and reliability of BDN, snapshotters, filesystems, and storage delivery across clusters and cloud providers.
- Coordinate storage integrations and priorities with model deployment, training, infrastructure, product, and upstream teams.
What they ask for
- Experience managing engineers in a systems, infrastructure, or storage context, including hiring and performance management.
- Hands-on experience with distributed storage systems, content-addressable storage, or large-scale caching infrastructure.
- Strong systems programming background in Go, Rust, and/or C/C++; able to contribute to code reviews and architecture discussions.
- Working knowledge of the Linux storage stack and understanding of how container images are structured, stored, and delivered at scale.
Nice to have
- Contributions to containerd, snapshotter, distribution, or related open-source projects; familiarity with lazy-loading snapshotters or peer-to-peer image distribution.
- Experience with EROFS, FUSE, ublk, io_uring, CDN or object storage, large-scale caching, or running storage services on Kubernetes.
Pay
$165K – $330K (base salary)
Tools
Go, Rust, C/C++, Linux, containerd, EROFS, FUSE, ublk
AI focus
Build storage and delivery infrastructure tailored to AI inference, including model-weight caching and delivery to GPU hosts.
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