Software Engineer, ChatGPT Infrastructure

OpenAI

3 days ago

San Francisco, CA, USA

Senior / Staff+

Base Salary

$255k - $405k/yr

Responsibilities

Build and evolve infrastructure platforms that many engineers and services depend on.
Translate messy real-world constraints into clean abstractions: simple APIs, enforceable contracts, safe defaults.
Drive improvements in reliability and performance through principled design, measurement, and iterative hardening.
Partner across engineering and product to identify systemic pain points and turn them into reusable solutions.
Own outcomes end-to-end: design → implementation → rollout → operational maturity.

Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
Strong fundamentals in systems design, including caching, consistency, queueing/backpressure, and resilient dependency management.
Ability to reason about performance and translate that into concrete engineering work.
Track record of building platforms or shared infrastructure that improves velocity and correctness for other teams.
Strong communication and collaboration skills.