160K–330K USD / year
Software Engineer, Networking (Agent Infra)
DevOpsHybrid — San Francisco, California, United States; New York, New York, United States
Published on 2026-10-26
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About this role
Build the networking stack that connects isolated microVM sandboxes to each other, platform services, customer networks, and the internet. The role focuses on scalable, low-latency, multi-tenant networking and programmable infrastructure for AI agents.
About the company
Baseten is an inference cloud that helps companies run and scale AI models in production with flexible infrastructure and developer tooling.
The team
Agent Infra
Stack
VPPDPDKRustGoC/C++EVPNGENEVEVXLAN
What you'll do
- Build a user-space VPP data plane connecting microVM sandboxes and platform services.
- Develop multi-tenant virtual private networking and overlays across regions.
- Expose networking capabilities through a programmable API.
- Improve latency and connection scale for agent traffic.
- Build regional routing, secure ingress and egress, and L7 proxies.
- Implement per-sandbox addressing, IPv6, and tenant isolation.
- Create packet-path observability and debug production networking issues.
What we're looking for
- Production experience with user-space packet processing or virtualized network functions.
- Experience building production multi-tenant networking, overlays, or software-defined networks.
- Strong systems programming skills in Rust, Go, and/or C/C++.
- Experience building cloud networking as a provider.
- Solid TCP/IP and routing fundamentals.
- Experience with proxies, load balancers, or L4/L7 gateways at scale.
- Ability to diagnose latency and throughput issues using packet captures, tracing, and profiling.
Nice to have
- Experience with VPP/FD.io, EVPN, GENEVE, or VXLAN.
- Linux networking experience with eBPF/XDP, netfilter, or network namespaces.
- Virtual machine networking experience, including virtio-net, vhost, TAP, Firecracker, or Cloud Hypervisor.
- IPv6 at scale, multi-region routing, anycast, or BGP experience.
- Telecom user-plane, 5G core, or low-latency trading network background.
- Experience with TLS termination, DNS, and egress security.
Benefits
- Meaningful equity.
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents in the U.S.
- Flexible PTO and a company-wide winter break.
- Paid parental leave.
- Fertility and family-building stipend.
- Company-facilitated 401(k) in the U.S.