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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.\nRESPONSIBILITIES\nRecruit, hire, and grow Baseten’s first SRE team in London, with ongoing coaching, feedback, and career development through regular 1:1s.\n\nSet clear performance expectations, hold a high bar, and foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.\n\nOwn the reliability of Baseten’s multi-cloud Kubernetes infrastructure during your team’s hours, including incident response, post-mortems, and remediation tracking.\n\nPartner with SRE leadership in the US to design follow-the-sun on-call rotations, escalation paths, and handoff processes.\n\nServe as the escalation point for major incidents, drive resolution with urgency, and make sure the team learns from every incident.\n\nDrive technical decisions through design reviews, code reviews, and architectural discussions. Turn the reliability roadmap into clear team priorities and milestones, and hold the team accountable for delivering them.\n\nLead the team in defining and instrumenting SLOs and SLIs, and in building observability infrastructure (metrics, logging, dashboards, and alerting) as code.\n\nTurn recurring failure patterns and tribal knowledge into runbooks, automated mitigations, and self-healing systems.\n\nPartner with engineering, forward deployed, capacity, and product teams to raise the operational floor across the company, and represent your team’s progress, capacity, and tradeoffs clearly to leadership.\n\nEnsure the fleet is healthy and operational across all clusters. Interact with vendors and internal teams to remediate node failures and reliability concerns.\n\nExercise and encourage good judgment on tooling and architectural tradeoffs, with a bias against unnecessary complexity.\n\nREQUIREMENTS\n4+ years of experience directly managing engineers in an SRE, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering context.\n\nExtensive hands-on experience with Kubernetes, with the ability to engage credibly in architectural discussions and code reviews (multi-cloud experience across EKS, GKE, or similar is a strong plus).\n\nStrong background building and maintaining scalable production infrastructure.\n\nStrong foundation in observability tooling: metrics (VictoriaMetrics, Prometheus), logging (Loki, ELK), dashboards (Grafana), and alerting pipelines.\n\nExperience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm) and GitOps workflows (Flux CD, ArgoCD).\n\nExperience leading incident response, running post-mortems, and building on-call rotations and runbooks.\n\nTrack record of recruiting and growing engineering talent.\n\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across time zones and influence without direct authority.\n\nOpenness to learning about ML infrastructure. Prior machine learning experience is not required.\n\nAbility to work onsite in our London office 3 days a week.\n\nNICE TO HAVE\nExperience building a new team or establishing an engineering presence in a new region.\n\nObservability-as-code experience.\n\nBackground in multi-cloud and hybrid environments.\n\nFamiliarity with incident management platforms (incident.io or similar).\n\nBackground in GPU infrastructure, or in diagnosing runtime issues around latency, memory behaviour, GPU utilisation, and concurrency.\n\nBENEFITS\nCompetitive compensation, including meaningful equity\n\n(U.S. only) 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents\n\nFlexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break (our offices are closed from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day!)\n\nPaid parental leave\n\nFertility and family-building stipend through Carrot\n\n(U.S. only) Company-facilitated 401(k)\n\nExposure to a variety of ML startups, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities.\n\nApply 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.\nAt Baseten, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. 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