OpenAI

Software Engineer, Data Acquisition

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almost 3 years ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$293k - $385k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own and lead engineering projects involving web crawling, data ingestion, and search.
  • Collaborate with Data Processing, Architecture, and Scaling teams to maintain smooth data flow and system operability.
  • Work with the legal team on compliance and data privacy matters.
  • Develop and deploy highly scalable distributed systems capable of handling petabytes of data.
  • Architect and implement data indexing and search algorithms.
  • Build and maintain backend data storage services, including key-value databases and synchronization.
  • Deploy solutions in a Kubernetes Infrastructure-as-Code environment and perform routine system checks.
  • Conduct and analyze data experiments to provide insights into system performance.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
  • 4+ years of industry experience in software development.
  • Strong expertise in large stateful distributed systems and data processing.
  • Proficiency in Kubernetes and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts.
  • Experience with large web crawlers is a plus.
  • Ability to try new approaches and technologies, manage multiple tasks, adapt to changing priorities, and communicate effectively.

Tech Stack

Categories

BackendData Engineering
OpenAI

About OpenAI

1,001-5,000 employees

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.