Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

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About the Team

The Applied Engineering team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to consumers and businesses. You’ll join the team responsible for running the core infrastructure that supports products like ChatGPT and the API. The systems we support include our Kubernetes clusters, infrastructure deployment, our networking stack, cloud abstractions, and more.

We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth.

About the Role

The cloud infrastructure team builds and maintains infrastructure abstractions allowing OpenAI to ship products quickly and scalably. This role is based in San Francisco, CA and is exclusively located at OpenAI's San Francisco HQ.

In this role, you will:

• Design and build the development and production platforms that power our products, enabling reliability and security at scale
• Ensure our infrastructure can scale to the next order of magnitude
• Help create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture that makes all feel welcome while enabling radical candor and the challenging of group think
• Participate in an on-call rotation and respond to critical incidents as needed

Responsibilities

• Build and operate core cloud infrastructure and platform abstractions
• Operate orchestration systems (e.g., Kubernetes) at scale and ensure platform reliability and security
• Design systems for scaling to large workloads and for high availability
• Contribute to networking, infrastructure deployment, and cloud abstraction efforts
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response

Requirements

• 5+ years building core infrastructure
• Experience operating orchestration systems such as Kubernetes at scale
• Experience building abstractions over cloud platforms
• Strong ownership of building and operating scalable, reliable, secure systems
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and rapid change

Benefits

• Competitive base pay (see salary range below) plus equity and performance-related bonuses
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
• Pre-tax accounts (Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, commuter benefits)
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave and paid medical/caregiver leave
• Flexible PTO and paid company holidays
• 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 Information

• This role is on-site at OpenAI's San Francisco headquarters. OpenAI offers relocation assistance to new employees.
• OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.

Compensation

• Base salary range: $255,000 - $490,000 per year. Total compensation includes equity and may include performance-related bonuses and other benefits.