Senior Cloud Traffic Infrastructure Engineer

OpenAI, Inc.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI, Inc. is seeking a seasoned engineer to design and operate the networking and traffic infrastructure that connects its products across clouds and regions. You will work on ingress/egress, service-to-service connectivity, and traffic routing, balancing reliability with performance.

You will bring deep expertise in production networking, with opportunities to build gateways, proxies, and automation. This role blends software engineering with production ownership and requires collaboration

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building production infrastructure or distributed systems, with substantial work on networking or traffic infrastructure.
• Depth in cloud networking, Kubernetes networking, proxies or gateways, service meshes, load balancing, or global traffic routing.
• Ability to reason about IP routing, TCP/UDP, DNS, NAT, TLS, and HTTP/gRPC connectivity and performance.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate ingress, egress, and service-to-service connectivity across clusters, regions, and clouds.
• Develop proxies, gateways, controllers, and automation for routing, load balancing, failover, and traffic management.
• Build and evolve cloud networking infrastructure, including private connectivity, NAT, and network isolation.

Skills

Production infrastructure

Networking/traffic infrastructure

Go

Rust

C++

Python

Tools

Envoy

NGINX

Istio

Cilium

Job description

OpenAI, Inc. is seeking a seasoned engineer to design and operate the networking and traffic infrastructure that connects its products across clouds and regions. You will work on ingress/egress, service-to-service connectivity, and traffic routing, balancing reliability with performance.

You will bring deep expertise in production networking, with opportunities to build gateways, proxies, and automation. This role blends software engineering with production ownership and requires collaboration