Software Engineer - Enterprise Platform
- Salary
- $165K - $330K
- Level
- Mid
- Work type
- Hybrid · San Francisco
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 9 September 2026.
About the role
ABOUT BASETEN
Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F, led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products.
THE ROLE
The largest, most demanding enterprises are starting to run on Baseten, and they arrive with a range of security, compliance, and procurement requirements. As an Engineer on Baseten's enterprise engineering team, you'll build the capabilities that enable large organizations like Writer, HubSpot, and Notion to succeed on Baseten. Enterprise engineering authors the core building blocks, APIs, and user experiences powering the Baseten platform: identity and access management, billing, regional isolation, and self-hosted and single-tenant deployment options.
This is deep product and systems work across the full stack, from designing authentication and authorization systems using standards like OAuth and OIDC to shipping the admin experiences enterprise IT teams use to manage their organization.
EXAMPLE INITIATIVES
Recent and upcoming work on the team:
- Fine-grained authorization for users, service accounts, and agentic workloads
- SSO and SCIM support, allowing customers to centralize and automate access to Baseten
- Expanding the billing platform to support evolving pricing models, advanced data exports, and controls to manage spend
- In-product management and enforcement of customer compliance requirements like data residency and HIPAA
- Securing network paths in and out of a customer's models with private connectivity and ingress and egress restrictions
- Allowing customers to run Baseten inside their own VPC, on-prem, or a dedicated single-tenant environment
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead complex, ambiguous engineering initiatives from problem definition and technical design through implementation, launch, and iteration.
- Make thoughtful architectural decisions, balancing near-term customer needs with long-term simplicity, scalability, and maintainability.
- Partner with product, design, and customer-facing teams to translate user feedback and requests into product requirements and durable technical solutions.
- Establish strong engineering practices for quality, security, observability, and operational ownership.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship, helping teammates grow while raising the quality of design and execution across the team.
REQUIREMENTS
- Experience building enterprise software, including work on one or more of: identity and access management, billing systems, multi-tenant isolation controls, private connectivity, or compliance program initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects, develop and operate systems running at scale, and collaborate with customers to understand their needs.
- Comfort working across the full stack, from product and application code to cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure.
- Preferred: Experience building AI or data-intensive infrastructure products.
BENEFITS
- Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
- (U.S. only) 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
- Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break (our offices are closed from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day!)
- Paid parental leave
- Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
- (U.S. only) Company-facilitated 401(k)
- Exposure to a variety of ML startups, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities.
Baseten's standard text
Apply now to embark on a rewarding journey in shaping the future of AI! If you are a motivated individual with a passion for machine learning and a desire to be part of a collaborative and forward-thinking team, we would love to hear from you.
At Baseten, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example, the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, where applicable).
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
IAM · OAuth
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Machine Learning
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The team: Enterprise HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 4 open in Enterprise. 1 was posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in August: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Machine Learning (4 of 4), Kubernetes (2 of 4), OAuth (2 of 4)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Software Engineer - Partner Platform posted Sep 29
- Software Engineer - Identity & Authorization posted Sep 2
- Software Engineer - Billing & Internal Tooling posted Feb 27
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