Software Engineer, Database Systems
OpenAI
7 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA
Mid Level / Senior
Base Salary
$230k - $385k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate high-performance distributed systems.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks to scale infrastructure.
- Define long-term technical direction and guide system evolution.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and research teams.
- Investigate complex production issues across the stack.
- Contribute to incident response and best practices for system reliability.
Requirements
- 4+ years of relevant industry experience.
- 2+ years leading large scale, complex projects or teams.
- Experience with distributed systems at scale.
- Strong communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.
- Proficiency in a systems programming language such as C++ is preferred.
- Domain knowledge in databases, storage engines, or query processing is a plus.
Tech Stack
C++
Categories
AI & MLBackendData Engineering