{"id":4302327,"url":"https://alion.io/job/baseten-software-engineer-cloud-platform","title":"Software Engineer, Cloud Platform","company":{"id":4399,"name":"Baseten","domain":"baseten.co","url":"https://alion.io/company/baseten","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":73,"open_postings":26,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.846,"repost_share":0.038,"time_to_fill_p50_days":73,"computed_at":"2026-11-12T10:38:37Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Francisco, United States","Toronto, Canada","New York, United States","Montreal, Canada","Seattle, United States"],"countries":["US","CA"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":165000,"max":330000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":330000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"ArgoCD","optional":false},{"name":"Baseten","optional":false},{"name":"Cursor","optional":false},{"name":"GitOps","optional":false},{"name":"Go","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"Notion","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":true},{"name":"Progressive Delivery","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-14T01:13:30Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-14","last_verified_at":"2026-11-14T04:08:40Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"ABOUT BASETEN\nBaseten 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.\nTHE ROLE\nJoin Cloud Platform Engineering to own the Kubernetes fleet that runs our production AI workloads. You’ll turn manual cluster operations into reliable, repeatable systems-from bringing new cloud providers online to rolling out configuration and upgrades safely across the entire fleet.\nThis is a hands-on software engineering role with ownership from design through production. 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