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LAYIQ - Engineering Manager Runtime - Storage at Baseten

Team Leadership and Culture
Hire and grow a team of 5 to 10 systems engineers with storage, caching, and Linux expertise
Run the team’s planning and delivery: scope work against the Runtime Fabric roadmap, set priorities, and ship on a predictable cadence
Provide regular coaching, feedback, and career development support to your direct reports
Own on-call health for the team’s services, including escalation paths and follow-through on incidents
Technical Direction
Guide the architecture and evolution of the Baseten Delivery Network: the tiered caching and weight delivery product that makes cold starts 2-3x faster and eliminates thundering herd failures during burst scaling events
Shape storage products tailored to Baseten’s workloads: extend BDN from model weights to container images, training checkpoints, and deployment artifacts, and define the interfaces that model deployment, training, and customers use to reach them
Oversee the on-host side of delivery: lazy-loading snapshotters, EROFS and overlayfs layouts, and block-level delivery (FUSE, ublk) for multi-gigabyte files
Own reliability of the delivery path as a measured outcome: end-to-end instrumentation from snapshotter initialization to first inference request, targets for cold start and cache behavior, tolerance for failing upstream registries and object stores, and safe rollout of changes to a path every customer depends on Make the delivery path work across heterogeneous clusters and cloud providers, each with its own object store and network
Review designs and code across the area, and take on hands-on work where it unblocks the team
Champion the team’s contributions back to containerd and the snapshotter ecosystem alongside the maintainers on the Runtime Fabric team
Cross-Functional Partnership
Act as the point of contact for storage across Baseten, ensuring model deployment, training, and platform teams have the integration support they need
Optimize requirements for the underlying storage platforms with the infrastructure team: object storage, local NVMe and block storage, and network bandwidth per cluster, so that capacity and provider decisions account for what the delivery path needs
Manage the team’s dependencies in both directions: sequence work that model deployment, training, and infrastructure teams block on, and negotiate interfaces and timelines with the teams and upstream projects the storage path depends on Work with the head of Runtime Fabric and product stakeholders to prioritize storage investments based on customer impact and infrastructure reliability
Communicate team progress, technical trade-offs, and incidents clearly to the team and to leadership

Engineering Manager Runtime - Storage

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