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Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Analytics Platform

OpenAI · San Francisco

$230k - $385k/yrRemoteMid levelEngineeringScalingWorkloadPosted 3 months ago
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ABOUT THE TEAM The Scaling team designs, builds, and operates critical infrastructure that enables research at OpenAI. Our mission is simple: accelerate the progress of research towards AGI. We do this by building core systems that researchers rely on - ranging from low-level infrastructure components to research-facing custom applications. These systems must scale with the increasing complexity and size of our workloads, while remaining reliable and easy to use. ABOUT THE ROLE We’re looking for an experienced software engineer to design, develop, and operate production-critical software infrastructure end to end across its full production lifecycle. This role is centered on backend / systems engineering, with emphasis on low-level performance, scalability, distributed systems, and hands-on development and operation of critical services at scale. You’ll take ambiguous problems, turn them into concrete plans, ship pragmatic solutions quickly, and improve them through production feedback and iteration. This is not a general Python backend role. We’re specifically looking for strong systems experience in Rust or C++, especially in performance-sensitive infrastructure. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL: - Own critical infrastructure across design, implementation, rollout, operation, and iteration. - Build and operate performant backend systems in Rust or C++ that support core research workflows. - Design and improve distributed data and serving systems, including tradeoffs around partitioning, replication, consistency, retries, backpressure, and failure isolation. - Debug real production bottlenecks across latency, throughput, contention, hot spots, and overload behavior. - Operate business-critical services through on-call, incidents, postmortems, observability, alerting, safe rollouts, rollback plans, and zero-downtime migrations.

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Skills this posting mentions

InfrastructureContinuous IntegrationPython

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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