Resilience Engineer: Scale, Reliability & Automation

OpenAI, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 490,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401(k) Match

Parental Leave

Paid Time Off

Relocation Assistance

Meals in Office

Job summary

OpenAI, Inc. in San Francisco seeks an experienced Software Engineer for Resilience Engineering to ensure reliability, scalability and performance of our rapidly evolving infrastructure.

You will collaborate with researchers, engineers, product managers and designers to bring features to millions while maintaining safety and uptime. The role emphasizes building tooling for load testing, automation, and platform management across CPU, storage, GPU, and network resources, with on-call rotation for

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
• Proven experience as an SWE focused on reliability or a similar role in a fast-paced, rapidly scaling company.
• Strong proficiency in cloud infrastructure.
• Proficiency in programming languages.
• Experience with containerization technologies and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of IaC tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana and Splunk.
• Experience with microservices architecture and service mesh technologies.
• Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement solutions to ensure the scalability of our infrastructure to meet rapidly increasing demands.
• Build and maintain the load, chaos and synthetic-testing software leveraged by development teams to make the systems they design and operate more reliable.
• Build and maintain automation tools to streamline repetitive tasks and improve system reliability.
• Build and maintain the platform for CPU, storage, GPU, and network lifecycle management to drive efficiency, accountability and dynamic optimization of our resources.
• Implement fault-tolerant and resilient design patterns to minimize service disruptions.
• Develop and maintain service level objectives (SLOs) and service level indicators (SLIs) to measure and ensure system reliability.
• Partner with researchers, engineers, product managers, and designers to bring new features and research capabilities to the world.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents and ensure 24/7 system availability.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Programming languages

Observability

Microservices

Security best practices

IaC

Kubernetes

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

Job description

OpenAI, Inc. in San Francisco seeks an experienced Software Engineer for Resilience Engineering to ensure reliability, scalability and performance of our rapidly evolving infrastructure.

You will collaborate with researchers, engineers, product managers and designers to bring features to millions while maintaining safety and uptime. The role emphasizes building tooling for load testing, automation, and platform management across CPU, storage, GPU, and network resources, with on-call rotation for