Engineering Manager – Runtime, Storage

Baseten

. Lead engineers building and operating storage products behind Baseten’s Runtime Fabric .

Posted 10/15/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $165,000 - $330,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in managing and developing engineering teams within systems and storage contexts, with a strong focus on distributed storage systems and performance management. Proficient in systems programming and familiar with the Linux storage stack, container image delivery, and cloud infrastructure.

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Team ManagementDistributed Storage SystemsSystems Programming in Go, Rust, C/C++Linux Storage StackContainer Image Delivery

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Hard Skills

Distributed Storage SystemsSystems Programming in GoSystems Programming in RustSystems Programming in C/C++Linux Storage StackContainer Image StructurePerformance ManagementIncident ManagementCode ReviewArchitectural Discussions

Soft Skills

Written CommunicationVerbal CommunicationInfluencing Without AuthorityCoachingFeedback

Tools & Technologies

EROFSFUSEUblkKubernetesContainerd

Industry Keywords

Storage InfrastructureCaching InfrastructureCDNObject StorageSnapshotter Ecosystem

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudKubernetesLinuxRustC++Go

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead engineers building and operating storage products behind Baseten’s Runtime Fabric
Hire and grow a team of 5 to 10 systems engineers
Run team planning and delivery against the Runtime Fabric roadmap
Set priorities and ship on a predictable cadence
Provide coaching, feedback, and career development support
Own on-call health, escalation paths, and incident follow-through
Guide the architecture and evolution of the Baseten Delivery Network
Extend BDN from model weights to container images, training checkpoints, and deployment artifacts
Oversee lazy-loading snapshotters, EROFS and overlayfs layouts, and block-level delivery using FUSE and ublk
Own reliability of the delivery path through instrumentation, performance targets, upstream-failure tolerance, and safe rollouts
Make the delivery path work across heterogeneous clusters and cloud providers
Review designs and code and take on hands-on work when needed
Contribute to containerd and the snapshotter ecosystem
Coordinate storage integration with model deployment, training, platform, infrastructure, and product teams
Optimize object storage, local NVMe, block storage, and network bandwidth requirements
Manage dependencies, interfaces, and timelines with internal teams and upstream projects
Communicate progress, technical trade-offs, and incidents to the team and leadership

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience managing a team of engineers in a systems, infrastructure, or storage context, including hiring and performance management
Hands-on background in distributed storage systems, content-addressable storage, or large-scale caching infrastructure
Strong systems programming background in Go, Rust, and/or C/C++
Ability to engage credibly in code reviews and architectural discussions
Working knowledge of the Linux storage stack: filesystems, the page cache, block devices, and mounts
Understanding of how container images are structured, stored, and delivered at scale
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence without authority across teams
Contributions to containerd/containerd, snapshotter projects, distribution/distribution, or closely related open-source projects (nice to have)
Familiarity with lazy-loading snapshotters or peer-to-peer image distribution (nice to have)
Experience with EROFS, FUSE, ublk, or io_uring (nice to have)
Experience building or operating CDN, object storage, or large-scale caching infrastructure (nice to have)
Experience running storage services on Kubernetes (nice to have)

Benefits

Comp & perks

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
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