Resilience Engineer: Build Scalable, Reliable Systems

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

OpenAI is hiring a reliability-focused SWE to scale and protect our infrastructure as the company grows. You will build and maintain tools for load testing, chaos experiments, and automation to reduce incidents and improve performance across services.

You will collaborate with research, product, and design teams to deploy reliable features and manage complex distributed systems with strong security and observability practices.

Qualifications

• Experience as SWE focused on reliability in a fast-paced, scaling company.
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Proficiency with containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Experience with observability tooling and incident response.
• Familiarity with IaC and security best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable infrastructure solutions to meet rapidly increasing demand.
• Develop and maintain load, chaos, and synthetic-testing tooling to improve reliability.
• Create automation to streamline repetitive tasks and improve system reliability.
• Manage lifecycle of CPU, storage, GPU, and network resources for efficiency.
• Implement fault-tolerant patterns and define SLOs/SLIs for reliability metrics.
• Collaborate with researchers, engineers, and product teams to deploy reliable features.
• Participate in on-call rotation to ensure 24/7 system availability.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Cloud infrastructure

Observability

Infrastructure as Code

Kubernetes

Security practices

Cross-functional collaboration

SRE tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

Docker

Job description

OpenAI is hiring a reliability-focused SWE to scale and protect our infrastructure as the company grows. You will build and maintain tools for load testing, chaos experiments, and automation to reduce incidents and improve performance across services.

You will collaborate with research, product, and design teams to deploy reliable features and manage complex distributed systems with strong security and observability practices.