Software Engineer Online Storage
Software Engineer Online Storage
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USD 255000 - 405000
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About the Team
We are the Online Storage team powering ChatGPT Sora and the OpenAI APIs. Were a growing team set up to own the databases and onlinestorage infrastructure that serve all our products.
About the Role
As OpenAI scales were seeking experienced problemsolving engineers to build robust highperformance and scalable database systems. Our ability to rapidly iterate on products while ensuring reliability and speed is key to our success.
Youll work in a fastpaced collaborative environment building systems that serve hundreds of millions of users globally with a strong emphasis on safety reliability and performance.
Were hiring skilled software engineers to join the Online Storage team. Youll help design and build a largescale database collaborate with various product teams to scale it to meet their needs and own operational excellence by defining SLAs and KPIs that directly satisfy stakeholder expectations. This is a critical role for engineers who thrive on solving complex largescale challenges and are passionate about building resilient systems that perform under load.
In this role you will:
Design and build highly scalable reliable and performant database
Design and build highly simple and intuitive APIs for the underlying database
Analyze and resolve performance and scalability bottlenecks to improve overall system efficiency
Debug instrument and fix system issues from pinpointing root causes to delivering longterm solutions
Define technical strategy and guide the development of robust infrastructure that supports highscale production systems and evolving business needs
Collaborate closely with product teams to deeply understand requirements and deliver impactful solutions
Boost engineering productivity by building intuitive tools and systems that empower fellow developers
Foster an inclusive team culture encouraging diverse perspectives radical candor and thoughtful challenge to groupthink
Own the reliability of the systems you build including participating in an oncall rotation to address critical incidents
You might thrive in this role if you:
Have experience building (and rebuilding) production systems to support new product capabilities and growing scale
Care deeply about the enduser experience and take pride in solving real customer needs
Embrace a humble collaborative mindset and go the extra mile to support your teammates and the broader mission
Own problems endtoend youre comfortable learning on the fly to fill gaps and get things done
Build internal tools that improve workflows when offtheshelf solutions fall short
Have handson experience with distributed systems such as data storage caching search or other backend infrastructure components
Prioritize the reliability scalability and performance of largescale systems
Thrive in ambiguous fastpaced environments and enjoy iterating rapidly on product and research initiatives
Qualifications:
4 years of industry experience including 2 years leading largescale complex projects or technical initiatives as an engineer or tech lead
Strong passion for building distributed systems at scale with a focus on reliability scalability security and continuous improvement
Expertise in systems programming with handson experience in multithreading and concurrency; proficiency in C and/or Python is highly preferred
Preferably domain experience in areas such as databases largescale data systems storage caching search or other core components of distributed infrastructure
Excellent communication skills with the ability to build consensus across diverse technical and nontechnical stakeholders
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that generalpurpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core and to achieve our mission we must encompass and value the many different perspectives voices and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race religion national origin gender sexual orientation age veteran status disability or any other legally protected status.
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At OpenAI we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Employment Type
Full-Time
