OpenAI

Software Engineer, Observability

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8 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USA +2 moreSenior
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Base Salary

$266k - $445k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own distributed logging, time-series, and trace-storage infrastructure for the observability platform.
  • Build AI-native tools that help engineers detect, understand, and resolve production issues.
  • Develop dashboards, notebook-style workflows, and interactive debugging interfaces.
  • Collaborate with engineering, research, user operations, product, and other teams across OpenAI.
  • Build foundational infrastructure and internal tools that improve production-system reliability, performance, and observability.

Requirements

  • Experience operating large-scale distributed systems in production, especially logging systems or time-series databases.
  • Strong fundamentals in systems, networking, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Ability to solve ambiguous and unscoped technical problems in a hands-on environment.
  • Full-stack development skills or strong product sensibilities and interest in building tools used by engineers.
  • Observability experience with systems such as Prometheus or OpenTelemetry is a bonus.

Tech Stack

AWSKubernetesPrometheus
OpenAI

About OpenAI

10,000+ employees

OpenAI builds and deploys large-scale AI models and tools—including ChatGPT, GPT-4–class models, DALL·E, and Whisper—sold via APIs and enterprise subscriptions to developers and businesses. It monetizes through usage-based API pricing and ChatGPT Plus/Team/Enterprise, and also reaches customers via Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a private partnership.

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