Software Engineer Infrastructure
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USD 210000 - 405000
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About the Team
Were hiring Software Engineers to join our broader Infrastructure organization which supports multiple highimpact teams. Depending on your interests and experience you could work on one of several focus areasincluding Core Distributed Systems Reliability Engineering Observability Developer Productivity or Cloud Infrastructure.
About the Role
All teams are deeply collaborative work on missioncritical services and are responsible for building distributed scalable infrastructure to bring OpenAIs technology to the world through products like ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. Youll work closely with stakeholders to understand infrastructure data and compute needs setting the technical strategy that supports cuttingedge research and product development. This is a critical role for someone who is passionate about solving complex engineering problems at scale ensuring their performance scalability and reliability
Team Focus Areas
Distributed Systems: Owning and building important highly scalable available performant and reliable distributed systems (and their building blocks) to power the entire stack at OpenAI
Systems Engineering: Work across layers of the stackdebugging system bottlenecks evolving core infrastructure and solving novel problems in performance and scalability.
Reliability Engineering: Build scalable faulttolerant systems and lead efforts around service health incident response and resilience.
Observability: Design and maintain observability tooling (metrics logs tracing) to give teams visibility into production systems at scale.
Developer Productivity: Create tools environments and workflows that help engineers ship highquality software faster and more safely.
Cloud Infrastructure: Own the cloudnative infrastructure (compute networking storage) that underpins all services and research workloads.
In this role you will:
Design build and maintain reliable and performant systems used across engineering.
Work with your team to define technical strategy architecture and longterm goals.Collaborate with other engineers product managers and researchers to build infrastructure that meets evolving needs.
Improve internal tooling automation and developer experience.
Contribute to incident response postmortems and the development of best practices around system reliability and scalability.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Strong software engineering skills with experience in Python Go Rust or similar languages.
Experience designing operating or scaling distributed systems or developer infrastructure.
Comfort working in Linux environments and with tools like Kubernetes Terraform CI/CD pipelines and modern observability stacks.
Ability to navigate complex systems and a willingness to dig deep when debugging tricky issues.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills especially in crossfunctional settings.
Qualifications:
4 years of relevant industry experience with 2 years leading large scale complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead
A passion for distributed systems at scale with a focus on reliability scalability security and continuous improvement.
Excellent communication skills with ability to build consensus among stakeholders both internally and externally.
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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For US Based Candidates: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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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
