Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Rust/C++ (Distributed Systems)

Neura Market; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a senior software engineer to design, develop, and operate production‑critical software infrastructure end to end. The role emphasizes backend/system engineering with a focus on low‑level performance, scalability, and distributed systems. You will ship Rust or C++ services and operate them in production at scale.

Based in San Francisco, this hybrid role includes relocation assistance. You will own infrastructure across the full lifecycle, collaborating with researchers to

Qualifications

• Operationally critical systems end to end in ambiguous environments.
• Hands-on experience building performance-sensitive backend systems in Rust or C++.
• Experience designing, building, or operating distributed systems or distributed databases at scale.
• Production infrastructure and delivery tooling: Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Own critical infrastructure across design, implementation, rollout, operation, and iteration.
• Build and operate performant backend systems in Rust or C++ that support core research workflows.
• Design and improve distributed data and serving systems, including partitioning, replication, consistency, retries, backpressure, and failure isolation.
• Debug real production bottlenecks across latency, throughput, contention, hot spots, and overload behavior.
• Operate business-critical services through on-call, incidents, postmortems, observability, alerting, safe rollouts, rollback plans, and zero-downtime migrations.
• Improve reliability of services running on Kubernetes, including resource tuning, failure handling, and production readiness.
• Partner with engineers and researchers to deliver fast, reliable systems.
• Raise the bar through strong technical judgment, ownership, and follow-through.

Skills

Rust

C++

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Prometheus

Observability

Tools

Terraform

ClickHouse-like systems

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a senior software engineer to design, develop, and operate production‑critical software infrastructure end to end. The role emphasizes backend/system engineering with a focus on low‑level performance, scalability, and distributed systems. You will ship Rust or C++ services and operate them in production at scale.

Based in San Francisco, this hybrid role includes relocation assistance. You will own infrastructure across the full lifecycle, collaborating with researchers to