Software Engineer, Observability

Responsibilities

• Own core observability infrastructure, including distributed logging, time series, and trace storage
• Build AI-native tools that help engineers detect, understand, and resolve issues autonomously
• Contribute to UI experiences like dashboards, notebooking, or interactive debugging
• Collaborate closely with engineers, researchers, user ops, and other teams across the company to build the next generation observability product

Requirements

• Experience operating large-scale distributed systems in production
• Experience with logging systems or time series databases
• Strong fundamentals in systems, networking, and cloud infra (Kubernetes, AWS, etc)
• Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments and solve unscoped problems
• Full-stack capabilities or strong product sensibilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or contributing to observability systems such as Prometheus or OpenTelemetry

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.