Infrastructure Cost & Efficiency Engineer

OpenAI, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Software Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and operation of systems for infrastructure cost and efficiency. You will build platforms that explain where spend goes, identify opportunities to improve utilization, and help teams plan capacity.

You will own technical direction for a growing area, work with engineering, product, finance, and leadership, and translate ambiguous problems into reliable software and measurable improvements.

Qualifications

• Have over 7 years of experience designing, building, and operating production software and distributed systems.
• Experience building infrastructure cost, usage metering, budgeting, or capacity management systems.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical direction and roadmap for infrastructure cost and efficiency systems, and lead projects from problem definition through implementation, adoption, and ongoing operation.
• Build billing, usage metering, and cost attribution systems that connect infrastructure spend to resources, workloads, services, and the teams that own them.
• Develop data pipelines and shared data models that combine cloud billing, resource inventory, and utilization signals into a dependable view of cost and capacity.
• Build tools for budgeting, forecasting, and capacity planning that help teams anticipate demand, allocate resources, and inform procurement decisions.
• Identify underutilized resources and other sources of waste, then partner with engineering teams to deliver and measure improvements while preserving performance and reliability.
• Create APIs, reporting tools, and automated controls that help teams understand their consumption, manage budgets, and make informed infrastructure tradeoffs.
• Provide technical leadership across teams, mentor engineers, and own the correctness, scalability, and production behavior of the systems you build.

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed systems

Budgeting & forecasting

Kubernetes

Cloud cost attribution

Tools

Kubernetes

Public cloud infrastructure

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Software Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and operation of systems for infrastructure cost and efficiency. You will build platforms that explain where spend goes, identify opportunities to improve utilization, and help teams plan capacity.

You will own technical direction for a growing area, work with engineering, product, finance, and leadership, and translate ambiguous problems into reliable software and measurable improvements.