Software Engineer, Productivity - Networking

Responsibilities

• Improve development workflows for engineers building and operating OpenAI’s networking systems
• Design and improve continuous deployment, release, and validation pipelines
• Build and maintain test harnesses for multi-server, networked, and hardware-backed environments
• Improve iteration speed across C++, Python, and build-system-heavy codebases
• Partner with engineers to identify friction in CI, testing, debugging, and deployment workflows
• Drive testing and reliability strategy for infrastructure components supporting large-scale workloads

Requirements

• Experience with CI/CD, release pipelines, and testing infrastructure
• Proficiency in C++ and Python
• Experience with build systems such as CMake, Bazel, or Blaze
• Experience with automation and building test harnesses for complex systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in high-performance networking or complex infrastructure environments
• Ability to operate with ambiguity in a high-context technical setting
• A pragmatic approach to balancing high engineering standards with rapid development progress

Benefits

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

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.