Software Engineer, Cloud Agents

OpenAI, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to build and scale our cloud agent platform. You will work on orchestrating systems for diverse applications like Codex and ChatGPT, ensuring optimal reliability and performance.

The ideal candidate will have over 9 years of professional engineering experience, particularly in backend development and distributed systems. This role offers a chance to directly impact product efficiency and innovation while collaborating closely with product engineers.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of professional engineering experience in relevant roles.
• Leading large-scale backend or infrastructure projects from problem statements to production.
• Proficiency in backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale orchestration and sandboxing systems.
• Collaborate with product engineers on platforms for quick product shipping.
• Ensure reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency for agents.

Skills

Python

Rust

Distributed Systems

Cloud Infrastructure

Backend Development

Job description

Core Product & Platform | API - San Francisco

The Cloud Agents team builds product infrastructure for long-running agents in the cloud: orchestration, sandboxing and isolation, secure environment connectivity, secrets and identity, observability, reliability, and cost controls. These agents securely connect to diverse developer and customer environments and use tools to accomplish goals. We partner closely with product, research, and infrastructure teams to turn agentic capabilities into dependable platforms for OpenAI products and developers building on OpenAI.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced software engineer to help build and scale our cloud agent platform. You will design and operate systems for orchestrating agents at scale. You will work closely with product engineers on ChatGPT, API, and Codex to define the right abstractions and enable them to ship products quickly. Strong backend or infrastructure experience is important; experience with Python, Rust, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or product platforms is especially helpful.

In this role, you will:

Design and scale the orchestration, sandboxing and storage systems that run agentic workloads for Codex, ChatGPT, and the OpenAI API.

Partner with product engineers to build a platform that enables them to ship quickly and turn feedback into robust abstractions.

Improve reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency for long-running agents.

Deploy services that can operate across different environments and clouds.

Your background might look something like:

9+ years of professional engineering experience, excluding internships, in relevant roles at technology and product-driven companies.

Experience leading large-scale backend, platform, or infrastructure projects from ambiguous problem statements to production systems.

Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or similar, and the ability to move across service, platform, and product boundaries.

Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud platforms, and production reliability.

Enjoy abstracting away complex infrastructure and building platforms for product engineers to move faster.

Care about building platforms for other engineers and developers, and enjoy working closely with users to make complex infrastructure feel simple.

Comfort with a fast-moving pace while caring for security and operational excellence.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.