Baseten
Software Engineer - Networking (Agent Infra)
$160K–$330K
San Francisco +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York - Experience
- No number of years specified; experience alternatives include user-space packet processing or VNF/NFV.
About the job
Build a programmable, multi-tenant networking stack that securely connects agent microVM sandboxes with one another, platform services, customer networks, and the internet.
What you'll do
- Build a user-space, VPP-based data plane and multi-tenant overlays across regions.
- Develop programmable networking APIs, routing, secure ingress and egress, and proxies for sandbox traffic.
- Improve latency and connection scale; build packet-path observability and debug production issues.
What they ask for
- Experience with user-space packet processing or virtualized network functions.
- Production experience building multi-tenant networking and software-defined, overlay, or packet-processing networks.
- Strong production systems programming in Rust, Go, and/or C/C++; experience building cloud networking as a provider.
- Solid TCP/IP and routing knowledge; experience operating proxies, load balancers, or L4/L7 gateways at scale.
Nice to have
- Experience with VPP / FD.io, GENEVE or VXLAN overlays, or EVPN.
- Experience with Linux kernel networking, VM networking, IPv6 at scale, telecom or 5G networking, multi-region routing, TLS, DNS, or egress security.
Pay
$160K – $330K USD base salary
Tools
VPP, FD.io, DPDK, VXLAN, GENEVE, VRF, Rust, Go
AI focus
Networking infrastructure for AI agents running in microVM sandboxes, including agent-to-agent and agent-to-service traffic.
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