Software Engineer - Scalable Distributed Infrastructure

OpenAI; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI in the United States is hiring Software Engineers to join our Infrastructure organization, contributing to core distributed systems, reliability engineering, observability, and cloud infrastructure that support products like ChatGPT and the OpenAI API.

You'll work across teams to set technical strategy, design scalable systems, improve internal tooling, and participate in incident response and postmortems, ensuring performance, resilience, and safety as research and product workloads grow.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Experience designing, operating, or scaling distributed systems.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with Linux environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain reliable and scalable infrastructure.
• Define technical strategy, architecture, and long-term goals.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and researchers.
• Improve internal tooling and developer experience.
• Contribute to incident response and postmortems.

Skills

Distributed systems

Python

Go

C++

Rust

Linux

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Observability tools

Job description

OpenAI in the United States is hiring Software Engineers to join our Infrastructure organization, contributing to core distributed systems, reliability engineering, observability, and cloud infrastructure that support products like ChatGPT and the OpenAI API.

You'll work across teams to set technical strategy, design scalable systems, improve internal tooling, and participate in incident response and postmortems, ensuring performance, resilience, and safety as research and product workloads grow.