Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain reliable and performant systems used across engineering.
- Define technical strategy, architecture, and long-term goals with the team.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and researchers to meet evolving infrastructure, data, and compute needs.
- Improve internal tooling, automation, and developer experience.
- Contribute to incident response, postmortems, and best practices for system reliability and scalability.
Requirements
- 4+ years of relevant industry experience, including 2+ years leading large-scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or technical lead.
- Strong software engineering skills with experience in Python, Go, C++, Rust, or similar languages.
- Experience designing, operating, or scaling distributed systems or developer infrastructure.
- Comfort working in Linux environments with Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and modern observability stacks.
- Passion for distributed systems at scale, with focus on reliability, scalability, security, and continuous improvement.
- Ability to debug complex systems and build consensus among internal and external stakeholders.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and cross-functional skills.
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.