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Software Engineer, Habitat (Online Data)

OpenAI · Seattle

$230k - $385k/yrMid levelEngineeringApplied AIApplied AI EngineeringPosted 15 months ago
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ABOUT THE TEAM Online Data builds and operates Habitat, the single product surface of Online Data and the system of record for OpenAI’s online user data. As OpenAI’s scale and product requirements evolve, Habitat is becoming a full-stack, one-size-fits-most database platform with end-to-end ownership of: - Provisioning and developer experience - APIs and guardrails - Scaling, performance, and reliability - Data movement, caching, routing, and placement - Privacy enforcement and access control - Change Data Capture (CDC) as a first-class primitive - The foundation for future storage backends You’ll work on the core online database platform behind OpenAI’s products, building and operating Habitat services that handle high-QPS, latency-sensitive workloads across regions. You’ll partner closely with internal platform and product teams to ship safe, reliable systems, then push them to be faster and more cost-efficient through better caching, routing, observability, and operational tooling. This is a critical role for engineers who like owning hard distributed-systems problems end to end and sweating the details from p99 latency to production operations at massive scale. IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL - Design and build core abstractions spanning storage, caching, routing, CDC, and privacy enforcement - Own a major surface area end to end, from product and API design to operational excellence - Improve latency, correctness, and cost efficiency for real production workloads at massive scale - Build strong instrumentation, debugging workflows, and developer-first tooling - Collaborate closely with internal product and infrastructure teams to understand requirements and ship pragmatic solutions - Participate in an on-call rotation and raise the bar on reliability while aggressively improving performance and usability YOU MIGHT THRIVE IN THIS ROLE IF YOU HAVE - A strong track record building and operating high-scale backend or data-intensive distributed systems in production - Excell

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PythonFull Stack DevelopmentDeveloper Experience

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first - ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. 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.

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