Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure platforms that power OpenAI products
• Evolve cloud infrastructure abstractions that enable rapid product development across teams
• Architect systems to support significant growth, performance, and operational complexity
• Improve server orchestration, networking, distributed systems reliability, and infrastructure security posture
• Influence technical direction and infrastructure strategy across multiple teams
• Partner closely with product, research, and engineering teams to align infrastructure with evolving needs
• Own operational excellence, including participation in on-call rotations, incident response, and production readiness
• Mentor engineers and raise the overall technical bar of the organization

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience building and operating large-scale infrastructure systems
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration at scale
• Strong experience designing cloud abstractions and platform infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar)
• Proven track record of leading complex technical initiatives across teams
• Experience operating highly reliable, secure, and scalable distributed systems
• Strong systems thinking with the ability to balance velocity, reliability, and simplicity
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction

Preferred Qualifications

• Security engineering experience or security background

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 the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products.