Software Engineer – Scalable Distributed Infrastructure

Neura Market; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking software engineers to join our Infrastructure organization, building distributed, scalable systems across Core Distributed Systems, Reliability Engineering, Observability, Developer Productivity, or Cloud Infrastructure.

You will design, build, and operate mission-critical services, collaborating with researchers, product managers, and other engineers to define architecture, strategy and long-term goals, while improving tooling and incident response practices.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant industry experience, with 2+ years leading large scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead.
• A passion for distributed systems at scale with a focus on reliability, scalability, security, and continuous improvement.
• Excellent communication skills, with ability to build consensus among stakeholders both internally and externally.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain reliable and performant systems used across engineering. Work with your team to define technical strategy, architecture, and long-term goals.
• Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, and researchers to build infrastructure that meets evolving needs.
• Improve internal tooling, automation, and developer experience.
• Contribute to incident response, postmortems, and the development of best practices around system reliability and scalability.

Skills

Python

Go

C++

Rust

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Observability stack

Job description

OpenAI is seeking software engineers to join our Infrastructure organization, building distributed, scalable systems across Core Distributed Systems, Reliability Engineering, Observability, Developer Productivity, or Cloud Infrastructure.

You will design, build, and operate mission-critical services, collaborating with researchers, product managers, and other engineers to define architecture, strategy and long-term goals, while improving tooling and incident response practices.