Software Engineer, Caching Infrastructure
Software Engineer, Caching Infrastructure
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USD 325000 - 405000
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About the Team
At OpenAI were building safe and beneficial artificial general intelligence. We deploy our models through ChatGPT our APIs and other cutting-edge products. Behind the scenes making these systems fast reliable and cost-efficient requires world-class infrastructure.
The Caching Infrastructure team is responsible for building a caching layer that powers many critical use cases at OpenAI. We aim to provide a high-availability multi-tenant cache platform that scales automatically with workload minimizes tail latency and supports a diverse range of use cases.
Were looking for an experienced engineer to help design and scale this critical infrastructure. The ideal candidate has deep experience in distributed caching systems (e.g. Redis Memcached) networking fundamentals and Kubernetes-based service orchestration.
In This Role You Will:
Design build and operate OpenAIs multi-tenant caching platform used across inference identity quota and product experiences.
Define the long-term vision and roadmap for caching as a core infra capability balancing performance durability and cost.
Collaborate with other infra teams (e.g. networking observability databases) and product teams to ensure our caching platform meets their needs.
You Might Thrive In This Role If You:
Have 5 years of experience building and scaling distributed systems with a strong focus on caching load balancing or storage systems.
Have deep expertise with Redis Memcached or similar solutions including clustering durability configurations client-side connection patterns and performance tuning.
Have production experience with Kubernetes service meshes (e.g. Envoy) and autoscaling systems.
Think rigorously about latency reliability throughput and cost in designing platform capabilities.
Thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy balancing pragmatic engineering with long-term technical excellence.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose 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 we do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin sex sexual orientation age veteran status disability genetic information or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
For additional information please see OpenAIs Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary confidential and non-public information. In addition job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
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Employment Type
Full-Time
