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title: "Global Capacity Manager"
company: "Baseten"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/baseten"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/baseten-global-capacity-manager-7c0d4925-1bdd-4b46-ad9d-eda4026400eb"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/baseten/a615d797-44a4-4831-9ab9-49b4130bda7c"
workplace: hybrid
location: "San Francisco"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: mid
role: other
region: united-states
skills: ["aws", "azure", "gcp", "kubernetes", "python"]
salary: "$170,000–$230,000 per year"
date_posted: 2026-09-08T21:31:14.516Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-08T22:16:27.518Z
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# Global Capacity Manager

**Baseten** · San Francisco

Salary: $170,000–$230,000 per year

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/baseten/a615d797-44a4-4831-9ab9-49b4130bda7c

## About Baseten

Serve and scale open-source and custom AI models on the fastest, most reliable inference platform.

## About the role

**$2**

Baseten 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](https://www.baseten.co/blog/announcing-our-series-f/), led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products.

**$2**
As a Global Capacity Lead at Baseten, you will lead the "engine room" of the company, architecting, securing, and optimizing the global GPU fleet that powers our customers' AI workloads. You’ll own the end-to-end journey of capacity management, from securing multi-million dollar GPU clusters to building the automation that ensures 99.9% uptime across multi-cloud environments.

This role is a great fit for entrepreneurial engineers who want to bridge the gap between high-finance asset management and deep infrastructure engineering. You will act as the fleet orchestrator for the world's most advanced chips, ensuring Baseten never experiences a capacity outage while maintaining elite unit economics.

To be clear, this is a high-stakes engineering role. You will be hands-on with Kubernetes
orchestration while also leading specialized pods focused on the next generation of hardware, like NVIDIA’s Blackwell (B200) architecture.

**$2**

- The B200 Frontier: Architecting the infrastructure readiness and deployment strategyfor Baseten's first Blackwell GPU clusters.Global Workload Orchestration: Building "Multi-cloud Capacity Management" systemsto move customer workloads seamlessly across regions to optimize cost and latency.

- Precision GPU Triage: Developing automated Go-based operators to identify, cordon,and repair unhealthy H100 nodes in under an hour.The Supply Chain of Intelligence: Partnering with leadership to secure and reserve
dedicated capacity for Baseten’s largest enterprise customers.

**$2**

- Lead Specialized Pods: Act as the lead for specific GPU pods (e.g., H100 or B200),managing the full lifecycle of acquisition, air traffic control, and maintenance for thoseassets.

- Advanced Orchestration: Execute complex workload migrations and "sticky"deployment drains, ensuring deployment scheduling rules meet strict regional andcompliance requirements.

- Build for Scalability: Design and implement the "next version" of Baseten’s capacitymanagement system to handle a 10x increase in GPU volume.Financial Modeling: Leverage your understanding of unit economics to build ROImodels for GPU spend, ensuring Baseten scales profitably.

- Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with SRE, Infra, and FDE teams to take discreteoperational tasks off their plate and verify "last mile" follow-through on infrastructurechanges.

- Incident Response: Lead capacity-crunch response by rapidly untainting and re-coordinating workloads during high-pressure outages.**$2**

- Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics,or a related field

- 5+ years of professional work experience in a high-growth environment, preferably at ahyperscaler (GCP, AWS, Azure) or a specialized GPU provider

- Deep expertise in Kubernetes, including hands-on experience with taints, cordons, nodedraining, and custom operators

- Demonstrated experience with Go or Python in a production-level environmentStrong financial literacy and the ability to model complex trade-offs between capacityreliability and cost

- High tenacity and collaborative mindset**$2**

- Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity

- 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents

- Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break (our offices are closed from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day!)

- Paid parental leave

- Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot

- Company-facilitated 401(k)

- Exposure to a variety of ML startups, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities.**Apply now** to embark on a rewarding journey in shaping the future of AI! If you are a motivated individual with a passion for machine learning and a desire to be part of a collaborative and forward-thinking team, we would love to hear from you.

*At Baseten, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.*

*We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example, the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, where applicable).*

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