Software Engineer, Habitat (Online Data)

Responsibilities

• Design and build core abstractions spanning storage, caching, routing, CDC, and privacy enforcement
• Own major surface areas end-to-end, from product and API design to operational excellence
• Improve latency, correctness, and cost efficiency for massive-scale production workloads
• Build strong instrumentation, debugging workflows, and developer-first tooling
• Collaborate with internal product and infrastructure teams to ship pragmatic solutions
• Participate in an on-call rotation to maintain and improve system reliability and performance

Requirements

• 8+ years of industry experience building production software
• 3+ years of technical leadership experience leading large-scale, complex projects
• Proficiency in Rust (preferred for core systems) and/or Python
• Extensive experience with distributed systems, databases, or caching systems
• Strong track record of operating high-scale, data-intensive backend systems in production

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep experience with tail latency and global performance optimization (p95, p99)
• Experience designing platform APIs consumed by multiple internal teams
• Experience with multi-region systems, consistency semantics, and failover design
• Expertise in routing, load balancing, indexing, retrieval, or CDC pipelines

Benefits

• Competitive salary range of $230K – $385K plus equity and performance bonuses
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Flexible PTO and paid parental leave
• Daily meals in the office and meal delivery credits
• Annual learning and development stipend
• Relocation support for eligible employees

About the Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of AI capabilities and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products.