Backend Engineer, Core Services & Distributed Systems

OpenAI; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model (3 days in office)

Job summary

OpenAI in San Francisco, CA is seeking a software engineer for the Core Services team to design and operate backend platforms such as caching systems, workflow orchestration, metadata stores, and file services. You’ll focus on building highly reliable, scalable systems that serve as the backbone of our products.

We’re looking for people who love building infrastructure, enjoy distributed systems challenges, and create well-designed APIs that accelerate development across teams.

Qualifications

• Experience with distributed systems and backend infrastructure.
• Familiarity with caching layers and metadata stores.
• Experience running containerized services in cloud environments and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain shared infrastructure services across core platforms.
• Collaborate with product teams to provide scalable primitives for distributed systems.
• Improve performance, resilience, and scalability of core services powering applications.

Skills

Distributed systems

Caching infrastructure

Metadata storage

Workflow orchestration

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud services

API design

Tools

Redis

FoundationDB

Temporal

Cadence

Job description

OpenAI in San Francisco, CA is seeking a software engineer for the Core Services team to design and operate backend platforms such as caching systems, workflow orchestration, metadata stores, and file services. You’ll focus on building highly reliable, scalable systems that serve as the backbone of our products.

We’re looking for people who love building infrastructure, enjoy distributed systems challenges, and create well-designed APIs that accelerate development across teams.