Developer Productivity Engineer – Platform Tools

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 490,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is looking for an experienced engineer to join their Engineering Acceleration team in San Francisco. This role involves designing tools and systems to boost developer productivity, enhancing workflows, and ensuring systems reliability through an on-call rotation.

The ideal candidate should have over 5 years in engineering and substantial experience in building tooling for developers, along with empathy for engineering challenges. The position offers a compensation range of $210K – $490K and relocation assistance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years in building developer tooling.
• Ability to empathize with engineering teams' frustrations.
• Strong desire for learning and sharing knowledge clearly.

Responsibilities

• Drive design and implementation of tools and systems to enhance engineering productivity.
• Collaborate with teams to address their workflows and needs.
• Participate in on-call rotation for system reliability.

Skills

Infrastructure tooling for developers

Empathy in engineering tools

Learning and sharing knowledge

Comfort with ambiguity

Tools

Terraform

Buildkite

Postgres

Cosmos DB

Kafka

Python

FastAPI

Job description

OpenAI is looking for an experienced engineer to join their Engineering Acceleration team in San Francisco. This role involves designing tools and systems to boost developer productivity, enhancing workflows, and ensuring systems reliability through an on-call rotation.

The ideal candidate should have over 5 years in engineering and substantial experience in building tooling for developers, along with empathy for engineering challenges. The position offers a compensation range of $210K – $490K and relocation assistance.