Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

OpenAI; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI in Greater London is seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer to design and build cloud platforms that ensure reliability and security at scale. The position entails maintaining systems critical to products like ChatGPT and the API.

Ideal candidates will have over 5 years of experience and expertise in Kubernetes and cloud abstractions. Join us in creating inclusive and innovative infrastructure solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building core infrastructure.
• Experience operating orchestration systems such as Kubernetes at scale.
• Experience building abstractions over cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and build development and production platforms.
• Ensure infrastructure scalability.
• Manage reliability of systems with on-call rotation.

Skills

Kubernetes

Cloud Infrastructure

Scalability

Reliability

Job description

About the Team

The Applications Engineering team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to consumers and businesses. You’ll join the team responsible for running the core infrastructure that supports products like ChatGPT and the API. The systems we support include our Kubernetes clusters, infrastructure deployment, our networking stack, cloud abstractions, and more. We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth.

About the Role

The cloud infrastructure team builds and maintains infrastructure abstractions allowing OpenAI to ship products quickly and scalably.

In This Role, You Will

• Design and build the development and production platforms that power our products, enabling reliability and security at scale


• Ensure our infrastructure can scale to the next order of magnitude


• Help create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture that makes all feel welcome while enabling radical candor and challenging group think


• Be responsible for the reliability of the systems we build, including an on‑call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed

You Might Thrive In This Role If You

• Have 5+ years building core infrastructure


• Have experience operating orchestration systems such as Kubernetes at scale


• Have experience building abstractions over cloud platforms


• Take pride in building and operating scalable, reliable, secure systems


• Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change

Equal Opportunity Employment

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 OpenAI’s affirmative action and equal employment opportunity policy statement.