Posted 8 hours ago
Software Engineer, Database Systems
OpenAISoftware Engineer, Database Systems
Requirements
4+ years industry experience, Distributed systems expertise, C++ proficiency, Cloud environment fluency, Linux systems experience
Skills
C#Distributed SystemsAWS
About the role
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate high-performance distributed systems
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks to scale infrastructure
- Define long-term technical direction and guide system evolution
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and research teams to deliver scalable infrastructure
- Dig deep into complex production issues across the stack
- Contribute to incident response, postmortems, and best practices for system reliability
Requirements
- 4+ years of relevant industry experience
- 2+ years leading large scale, complex projects or teams
- Experience with distributed systems at scale focusing on performance and reliability
- Proficiency in systems programming languages like C++
- Fluency in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and IaC tools (Terraform)
- Experience with Linux systems, CI/CD pipelines, and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana)
Preferred Qualifications
- Domain knowledge in databases, storage engines, indexing, or query processing
- Experience operating production clusters at scale using Kubernetes
About the Company
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.
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