Base Salary
$230k - $385k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate a multi-tenant caching platform used across inference, identity, quota, and product experiences.
- Define the long-term vision and roadmap for caching as a core infrastructure capability.
- Scale the caching platform automatically with workload while minimizing tail latency and supporting diverse use cases.
- Collaborate with networking, observability, database, infrastructure, and product teams to meet platform needs.
- Balance performance, durability, reliability, and cost in caching infrastructure design.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and scaling distributed systems, with a focus on caching, load balancing, or storage systems.
- Deep expertise with Redis, Memcached, or similar caching solutions, including clustering, durability configurations, client-side connection patterns, and performance tuning.
- Production experience with Kubernetes, service meshes such as Envoy, and autoscaling systems.
- Strong judgment around latency, reliability, throughput, and cost in platform design.
- Ability to balance pragmatic engineering with long-term technical excellence in a fast-paced environment.
Tech Stack
About OpenAI
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.