Global Capacity Manager - TPU Focus

📋 Description

• Lead Specialized Pods: Act as the lead for TPU pod fleets managing the full lifecycle of
• Advanced Orchestration: Execute complex workload migrations and "sticky" deployment drains across
• Build for Scalability: Design and implement the "next version" of Baseten's capacity management
• Financial Modeling: Leverage your understanding of unit economics to build ROI models comparing
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner closely with MP, SRE, Infra, and FDE teams to ensure workloads
• Incident Response: Lead capacity-crunch response by rapidly reallocating and re-coordinating TPU

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related
• 5+ years of professional work experience in a high-growth environment, preferably at a hyperscaler
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud TPUs — pod slicing, ICI (Inter-Chip Interconnect) topology
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes, including hands-on experience with taints, cordons, node draining
• Demonstrated experience with Go or Python in a production-level environment
• Strong financial literacy and the ability to model complex trade-offs between capacity reliability

🎁 Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
• 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
• Flexible PTO policy including companywide Winter Break
• Paid parental leave
• Fertility and family-building stipend
• Company-facilitated 401(k)