Build Systems Engineer – CI & Bazel Expert

OpenAI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 185,000 - 490,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is looking for an engineer to evolve its build and continuous integration systems. This role focuses on enhancing developer productivity through improved build systems and CI processes.

The ideal candidate has over 5 years of software engineering experience, preferably with Bazel and CI tooling. Responsibilities include optimizing CI performance, improving build workflows, and working collaboratively with various engineering teams to address challenges.

Join OpenAI to make a meaningful impact on engineering productivity in AI development.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience building infrastructure or tooling for developers.
• Hands-on experience with Bazel, Buck, Pants, Gradle, or similar build systems.
• Experience operating CI systems at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve Bazel-based build and test workflows across a large, polyglot monorepo.
• Improve CI performance and reliability across Buildkite pipelines.
• Build systems to reduce unnecessary CI work.

Skills

Software engineering

Bazel

Continuous Integration (CI)

Developer tooling

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Go

TypeScript

Rust

C++

Education

5+ years of software engineering experience

Tools

Buildkite

Terraform

Job description

OpenAI is looking for an engineer to evolve its build and continuous integration systems. This role focuses on enhancing developer productivity through improved build systems and CI processes.

The ideal candidate has over 5 years of software engineering experience, preferably with Bazel and CI tooling. Responsibilities include optimizing CI performance, improving build workflows, and working collaboratively with various engineering teams to address challenges.

Join OpenAI to make a meaningful impact on engineering productivity in AI development.