Software Engineer, Cloud Agents
Used Tools & Technologies
Not specified
Required Skills & Competences
Tag name is followed by "@" symbol and proficiency level value.
About proficiency levels:
- 1-2 ā basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 ā daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 ā you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 ā exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Security @ 3
Go @ 5
TypeScript @ 5
Python @ 6
Distributed Systems @ 6
Rust @ 6
API @ 3
ChatGPT @ 3
Codex @ 3
Observability @ 3
AI @ 3
- 1-2 ā basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 ā daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 ā you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 ā exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Details
About the Team
The Cloud Agents team builds product infrastructure for long-running agents in the cloud: orchestration, sandboxing and isolation, secure environment connectivity, secrets and identity, observability, reliability, and cost controls. These agents securely connect to diverse developer and customer environments and use tools to accomplish goals. We partner closely with product, research, and infrastructure teams to turn agentic capabilities into dependable platforms for OpenAI products and developers building on OpenAI.
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced software engineer to help build and scale our cloud agent platform. You will design and operate systems for orchestrating agents at scale. You will work closely with product engineers on ChatGPT, API, and Codex to define the right abstractions and enable them to ship products quickly. Strong backend or infrastructure experience is important; experience with Python, Rust, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or product platforms is especially helpful.
Responsibilities
- Design and scale the orchestration, sandboxing and storage systems that run agentic workloads for Codex, ChatGPT, and the OpenAI API.
- Partner with product engineers to build a platform that enables them to ship quickly and turn feedback into robust abstractions.
- Improve reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency for long-running agents.
- Deploy services that can operate across different environments and clouds.
Requirements / Background
- 9+ years of professional engineering experience, excluding internships, in relevant roles at technology and product-driven companies.
- Experience leading large-scale backend, platform, or infrastructure projects from ambiguous problem statements to production systems.
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or similar, and the ability to move across service, platform, and product boundaries.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud platforms, and production reliability.
- Interest in abstracting away complex infrastructure and building platforms for product engineers to move faster.
- Comfort with a fast-moving pace while caring for security and operational excellence.
About OpenAI
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. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates.
Benefits
- Base pay range listed for the role and offers equity (compensation tier: $293K ā $385K).
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit).
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks).
- Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees.
- 13+ paid company holidays and multiple coordinated company office closures, plus paid sick or safe time as required by law.
- Mental health and wellness support.
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
- Annual learning and development stipend.
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible.
- Relocation support for eligible employees.
- Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends.