11 hours ago
Base Salary
$266k - $445k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate ingress, egress, and service-to-service connectivity across clusters, regions, and clouds.
- Develop proxies, gateways, controllers, and automation for routing, load balancing, failover, and traffic management.
- Build and evolve cloud networking infrastructure, including private connectivity, NAT, and network isolation.
- Diagnose failures and performance bottlenecks across application, proxy, transport, and cloud networking layers.
- Build telemetry and diagnostic tools to explain traffic paths and identify failing components.
- Implement and validate traffic-path protections with Security, including secure service communication, access controls, egress restrictions, and DDoS defenses.
- Improve latency, throughput, availability, and network efficiency through measurement, testing, and production rollouts.
- Create clear interfaces and safe defaults for service teams, participate in on-call, and reduce recurring failures and manual work.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building production infrastructure or distributed systems, including substantial networking or traffic infrastructure work.
- Depth in one or more areas such as cloud networking, Kubernetes networking, proxies and gateways, service meshes, load balancing, or global traffic routing.
- Understanding of IP routing, TCP/UDP, DNS, NAT, TLS, and HTTP/gRPC as they affect connectivity and performance.
- Hands-on experience with systems such as Envoy, NGINX, Istio, Cilium, or comparable networking infrastructure.
- Production software development experience in Go, Rust, C++, Python, or a similar language.
- Ability to investigate unfamiliar failures using evidence, test hypotheses, and verify resolutions.
- Ability to own design, implementation, rollout, and ongoing reliability while communicating across team boundaries.
- Care for building infrastructure that is secure and understandable for dependent engineers.
Benefits
- Role based in San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA.
- Participation in on-call and production ownership.
- OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.
About OpenAI
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.