Software Engineer Infrastructure - Analytics
Software Engineer Infrastructure - Analytics
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USD 310000 - 460000
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About the Team
The Scaling team designs builds and operates critical infrastructure that enables research at OpenAI.
Our mission is simple: accelerate the progress of research towards AGI. We do this by building core systems that researchers rely on ranging from lowlevel infrastructure components to researchfacing custom applications. These systems must scale with the increasing complexity and size of our workloads while remaining reliable and easy to use.
About the Role
As we grow were looking for a pragmatic and versatile software engineer who thrives in fastmoving environments and enjoys building systems that empower others.
This is a generalist software engineering role with an emphasis on distributed systems data processing infrastructure and operational excellence. Youll develop and operate foundational backend services that power key OpenAIs research workflows both by creating new infrastructure and by building on existing systems. The use cases will span across observability analytics performance engineering and other domains all with the goal of solving meaningful and impactful problems to research.
This role is based in San Francisco CA or open to being remote within the US. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In this role you will:
Design build and operate scalable backend systems that support various ML research workflows including observability and analytics.
Develop reliable infrastructure that supports both streaming and batch data processing at scale.
Creating internalfacing tools and applications as needed.
Debug and improve performance of services running on Kubernetes including operational tooling and observability.
Collaborate with engineers and researchers to deliver reliable systems that meet realworld needs in production.
Help improve system reliability by participating in the oncall rotation and responding to critical incidents.
You might thrive in this role if you have:
Strong proficiency in Python/Rust and backend software development ideally in large codebases.
Experience with distributed systems and scalable data processing infrastructure including technologies like Kafka Spark Trino/Presto Iceberg.
Handson experience operating services in Kubernetes with familiarity in tools like Terraform and Helm.
Comfort working across the stack from lowlevel infrastructure components to application logic and making tradeoffs to move quickly.
A focus on building systems that are both technically sound and easy for others to use.
Curiosity and adaptability in fastchanging environments especially in highgrowth orgs.
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.
OpenAI Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement
For US Based Candidates: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities and requests can be made via thislink.
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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
