Engineering Manager Runtime - Storage
Core
Lead the engineering team building the storage layer (BDN, snapshotters, filesystems) for AI inference workloads to enable fast cold starts and reliable model delivery.
Role type
Senior Engineering Manager, Systems/Storage Infrastructure
Builds
Baseten Delivery Network (BDN), snapshotters, filesystems, and caching layers for AI inference
Domain
AI Infrastructure / Distributed Systems / Storage
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Team leadership (hiring, performance management), distributed storage systems, content-addressable storage, large-scale caching, systems programming (Go, Rust, C/C++), Linux storage stack, container image delivery
Preferred skills
containerd/snapshotter contributions, lazy-loading snapshotters, EROFS/FUSE/ublk, CDN/object storage operations, Kubernetes storage services
Technologies
Go, Rust, C/C++, Linux, containerd, EROFS, FUSE, ublk, Kubernetes
Responsibilities
Hire and grow a team of 5-10 systems engineers, guide architecture of BDN and storage products, oversee on-host delivery mechanisms (snapshotters, block-level delivery), own reliability metrics for the delivery path, review designs and code, partner with infrastructure and model deployment teams
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities
