Baseten
Software Engineer - Observability
$165K–$330K
San Francisco +4 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Aug 10, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
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About the job
Build and evolve observability infrastructure that helps Baseten teams collect telemetry, monitor reliability, and diagnose operational issues across multi-cloud systems.
What you'll do
- Design scalable ingest and storage pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces.
- Improve observability platforms, instrumentation, alerting, and SLO infrastructure.
- Partner with engineering teams to meet their operational visibility and reliability needs.
What they ask for
- Deep experience in at least one observability signal area and familiarity with others.
- Understanding of high-throughput data pipelines, columnar storage, and telemetry ingest/query tradeoffs.
- Experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ClickHouse, or OpenTelemetry, or similar systems.
- Strong proficiency in at least one of Python, Rust, or Go.
Nice to have
- Interest in applying AI/LLMs to operational workflows.
- Comfort working independently on ambiguous, high-impact technical challenges.
Pay
$165K – $330K USD base salary
Tools
Prometheus, Grafana, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, Python, Rust, Go
AI focus
Interest in applying AI/LLMs to operational workflows such as automated root cause analysis, anomaly detection, or intelligent alerting.
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