Senior Infrastructure Engineer — Developer Velocity

OpenAI; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer to accelerate and stabilize the ChatGPT development and deployment loop. You will own local development, build systems, CI, deployment infrastructure, test ownership, and production safety signals to shorten the path from change to production.

This role requires diagnosing messy distributed systems, translating developer pain into reliable automation, and balancing velocity with safety.

Responsibilities

• Reduce local development startup and iteration latency for ChatGPT engineers
• Improve Bazel and build performance for local machines, devboxes, and CI, including cache effectiveness, reproducibility, disk usage, remote cache behavior, and observability into invalidations
• Improve CI reliability and merge throughput by reducing unrelated failures, tail latency, flaky or mis-owned tests, quarantine friction, and repeated manual reruns
• Build agents that help PRs make forward progress: rebasing, conflict resolution, CI triage, safe reruns, owner routing

Job description

OpenAI is seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer to accelerate and stabilize the ChatGPT development and deployment loop. You will own local development, build systems, CI, deployment infrastructure, test ownership, and production safety signals to shorten the path from change to production.

This role requires diagnosing messy distributed systems, translating developer pain into reliable automation, and balancing velocity with safety.