Software Engineer, Database Systems
Software Engineer, Database Systems
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USD 255000 - 405000
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About the Team:
The Database Systems team specializes in high-performance distributed databases. Our team built Rockset the real-time search analytics and vector database that powers all vector search and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) at OpenAI. In addition to retrieval as an online database Rockset powers core functionality across all of OpenAIs product lines and many critical internal use cases.
About the Role:
We are looking for engineers passionate about distributed systems close-to-the-metal performance optimization (our core engine is written in C) and building scalable database infrastructure from the ground up. As an engineer on the Database Systems team youll contribute to the core database engine driving improvements across ingestion query execution indexing and storage. Youll partner with teams across OpenAI to unlock new product capabilities and help scale online database reliability and throughput as usage grows by orders of magnitude.
In this role you will:
Design build and operate high-performance distributed systems
Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks to scale infrastructure to the next order of magnitude
Define long-term technical direction and guide system evolution
Collaborate with product engineering and research teams to deliver scalable and reliable infrastructure
Dig deep into complex production issues across the stack
Contribute to incident response postmortems and best practices for system reliability
You might thrive in this role if you:
Have significant experience building scaling and optimizing distributed systems at scale
Are curious about database internals storage engines or low-latency query systems
Enjoy debugging challenging performance issues in complex high-throughput systems
Think rigorously about scalability correctness and reliability
Thrive in fast-paced environments with high autonomy and impact
Qualifications:
4 years of relevant industry experience with 2 years leading large scale complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead
Experience with distributed systems at scale with a strong focus on performance reliability and scalability
Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across highly technical and cross-functional teams
Proficiency in a systems programming language such as C (our core engine is written in C) is strongly preferred
Domain knowledge in areas such as databases data systems storage engines indexing and query processing is a plus but not required
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
