Software Engineer, Infrastructure Reliability

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate reliable and performant systems used across engineering
• Identify and fix performance bottlenecks to ensure infrastructure scales to the next order of magnitude
• Improve automation, internal tooling, and developer experience to reduce manual work
• Contribute to incident response, postmortems, and the development of best practices for system reliability
• Collaborate with infra, product, and research teams to turn complex infrastructure into reliable platforms

Requirements

• 4+ years of relevant industry experience
• 2+ years leading large-scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead
• Proficiency in cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and IaC tools like Terraform
• Experience with containerization and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes
• Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or ELK stack)
• Knowledge of microservices architecture and service mesh technologies
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, networking, and database technologies

Benefits

• Competitive salary ($255K – $405K) and generous equity
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents)
• Flexible PTO and 13+ paid company holidays
• 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 the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products.