Used Tools & Technologies
Not specified
Required Skills & Competences
Tag name is followed by "@" symbol and proficiency level value.
About proficiency levels:
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Memcached @ 3
Redis @ 3
CI/CD @ 3
Distributed Systems @ 3
Communication @ 6
Networking @ 3
Performance Optimization @ 3
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — 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
The Core Services team builds and manages foundational backend services that bridge core infrastructure (compute, storage, networking) and product engineering teams. The team enables product teams to move fast, build reliably, and scale efficiently.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA and uses a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. The company offers relocation assistance to new employees.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain shared infrastructure services such as caching layers, workflow orchestration (Temporal), metadata stores, and file storage services.
- Collaborate with product teams to provide scalable, reliable primitives that abstract distributed systems complexity.
- Improve performance, resilience, and scalability of core services that power customer-facing applications.
Requirements
- Experience with distributed systems and caching infrastructure (e.g., Redis, Memcached).
- Experience with metadata storage (e.g., FoundationDB) or workflow orchestration (e.g., Temporal, Cadence).
- Experience running containerized services in cloud environments and integrating them into automated build/test/release (CI/CD) workflows.
- Understanding of trade-offs in consistency models, replication strategies, and performance optimization in multi-region systems.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills for working with cross-functional teams.
About the Company
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The company emphasizes safety and diverse perspectives in building and deploying AI systems.
OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.
Benefits
- Base pay within the listed range, plus equity and performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
- Pre-tax accounts (Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, commuter expenses).
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
- Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave.
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees; paid time off for non-exempt employees.
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures.
- 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.