OpenAI

Software Engineer, Productivity - Networking

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5 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$230k - $385k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Improve development workflows for engineers building and operating OpenAI’s networking systems.
  • Design and improve continuous deployment, release, and validation pipelines.
  • Build and maintain test harnesses for multi-server, networked, and hardware-backed environments.
  • Improve iteration speed across C++, Python, and build-system-heavy codebases.
  • Partner with engineers to identify and resolve friction in CI, testing, debugging, and deployment workflows.
  • Drive testing and reliability strategy for infrastructure components supporting large-scale training and inference workloads.
  • Collaborate with centralized developer experience teams while remaining embedded with networking engineers.

Requirements

  • Experience with CI/CD, release pipelines, testing infrastructure, or build systems.
  • Comfort working with C++, Python, and build systems such as CMake, Bazel, or Blaze.
  • Experience building test harnesses, automation, and workflow improvements for complex systems.
  • Ability to work across engineering workflows, codebases, and operational realities in a high-context infrastructure environment.
  • Interest in learning networking systems and improving developer productivity without requiring prior networking expertise.

Tech Stack

BazelC++CMakePython

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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