Infrastructure Reliability Engineer - Distributed Systems

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 255,000 - 405,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is hiring software engineers for their Infrastructure team in San Francisco. This role focuses on scaling and securing critical systems that power AI applications such as ChatGPT. Candidates will tackle complex technical challenges and collaborate with various teams to enhance system resilience.

The ideal candidate has over 4 years of experience in distributed systems, proficiency with cloud platforms, and a passion for engineering excellence.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Proven experience as a reliability engineer or similar role.
• Strong proficiency in cloud infrastructure and IaC tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate reliable systems.
• Identify and fix performance bottlenecks.
• Contribute to incident response and best practices.

Skills

Distributed systems principles

Performance optimization

Container orchestration (Kubernetes)

Linux environments

Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, etc.)

Microservices architecture

Security best practices

Education

4+ years of relevant industry experience

Experience leading complex projects

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

OpenAI is hiring software engineers for their Infrastructure team in San Francisco. This role focuses on scaling and securing critical systems that power AI applications such as ChatGPT. Candidates will tackle complex technical challenges and collaborate with various teams to enhance system resilience.

The ideal candidate has over 4 years of experience in distributed systems, proficiency with cloud platforms, and a passion for engineering excellence.