Scale-Driven Backend Engineer for ChatGPT Infra

OpenAI, Inc.; City Of London; Presencial; GBP 90.000 - 130.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

OpenAI in London is seeking a backend software engineer to design and evolve high-scale infrastructure that powers ChatGPT experiences. You will write production code, shape shared services, and drive reliability across distributed systems in production.

You will own production behavior, including rollout, monitoring, incident response, and continual improvements to performance, scalability, and system observability, aligning with product needs and safety standards.

Formación

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience building backend or distributed systems.
• Strong proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming language and experience writing reliable, maintainable production code.
• Experience designing, building, or improving services, platforms, or shared infrastructure at scale.
• Familiarity with production reliability practices, including monitoring, incident response, root-cause analysis, and operational readiness.
• Experience diagnosing performance, scalability, or reliability issues in production environments.
• Understanding of distributed systems, data storage, concurrency, asynchronous processing, or networking.
• Familiarity with modern deployment, observability, and cloud infrastructure practices.
• Ability to lead complex technical work and collaborate effectively across product and infrastructure teams.

Responsabilidades

• Design, build, and maintain backend systems supporting high-traffic ChatGPT experiences.
• Develop shared services, APIs, and infrastructure that help product teams build and launch new capabilities safely.
• Improve the performance, scalability, and efficiency of production systems as usage and product complexity grow.
• Build and improve systems for asynchronous processing and other large-scale backend workloads.
• Lead architectural improvements and infrastructure migrations while maintaining correctness, compatibility, and safe rollout and rollback.
• Strengthen monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics to detect problems early and reduce customer impact.
• Participate in on-call, incident response, and root-cause analysis, and turn operational learnings into lasting engineering improvements.
• Work across product and infrastructure teams to ensure new systems are reliable, secure, and production-ready.
• Build automation and tooling that reduce repetitive operational work and improve engineering effectiveness.

Conocimientos

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Production reliability

Cloud infrastructure

Containerization

Observability

Descripción del empleo

OpenAI in London is seeking a backend software engineer to design and evolve high-scale infrastructure that powers ChatGPT experiences. You will write production code, shape shared services, and drive reliability across distributed systems in production.

You will own production behavior, including rollout, monitoring, incident response, and continual improvements to performance, scalability, and system observability, aligning with product needs and safety standards.