Software Engineer – Infrastructure
| Company | OpenAI |
|---|---|
| Location | Seattle, WA, USA, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
Requirements
- Strong software engineering skills with experience in Python, Go, Rust, or similar languages.
- Experience designing, operating, or scaling distributed systems or developer infrastructure.
- Comfort working in Linux environments, and with tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and modern observability stacks.
- Ability to navigate complex systems and a willingness to dig deep when debugging tricky issues.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, especially in cross-functional settings.
- 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.
Preferred Qualifications
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No preferred qualifications provided.