OpenAI

Software Engineer, Product Velocity

OpenAI
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20 hours ago

Base Salary

$347k - $445k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Reduce local development startup and iteration latency for ChatGPT engineers.
  • Improve Bazel build performance, cache effectiveness, reproducibility, disk usage, remote-cache behavior, and build invalidation observability.
  • Improve CI reliability and merge throughput by reducing unrelated failures, tail latency, flaky or mis-owned tests, quarantine friction, and manual reruns.
  • Build agents for pull-request rebasing, conflict resolution, CI triage, safe reruns, owner routing, and blocker identification.
  • Make deployment pipelines more self-healing and improve deployment observability.
  • Establish metrics for commit-to-production latency, deployment throughput, CI tail latency, local bootup time, failure rates, manual interventions, false-positive gates, and developer-reported pain.
  • Collaborate across teams to turn developer workflow problems into measurable, durable fixes.

Requirements

  • Strong experience with large-scale developer infrastructure, build systems, CI/CD, deployment systems, or production reliability.
  • Ability to debug across local machines, devboxes, remote caches, monorepos, service dependencies, authentication systems, and distributed deployment pipelines.
  • Comfort with Bazel, Buildkite, Kubernetes, Temporal, Python or TypeScript services, GitHub workflows, and large monorepo tooling, or equivalent systems.
  • Ability to replace repeated manual intervention with policy-backed automation while preserving production safety.
  • Strong cross-team communication and ability to turn ambiguous workflow issues into owners, hypotheses, metrics, and shipped fixes.
  • Experience improving developer experience in a very large monorepo is preferred.
  • Experience with remote execution, remote caching, hermetic builds, cache reproducibility, CI quarantine, test ownership, merge queues, auto-revert systems, progressive delivery, canary or preview deployments, synthetics, alert quality, deploy-manager workflows, or agent-assisted developer workflows is preferred.
  • Familiarity with security and access-control constraints involving secrets, internal authentication, VPN or exit-node networking, and local development is preferred.

Tech Stack

Categories

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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