OpenAI

Software Engineer, Productivity - Networking

OpenAI
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4 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

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.