Software Engineering • Mid-Level

Who you are

You have a solid background in software engineering with a focus on infrastructure reliability — you've designed and built systems that prioritize performance and security, ensuring they can scale effectively. Your experience includes working with cloud technologies and container orchestration, allowing you to manage complex infrastructures with ease.

You thrive in collaborative environments where you can take ownership of projects — you enjoy solving deep technical problems and have a knack for identifying performance bottlenecks. Your ability to communicate effectively with cross-functional teams helps you turn complex challenges into reliable solutions.

You are passionate about automation and continuously seek ways to improve internal tooling and developer experience — you understand the importance of reducing manual work and enhancing system resilience. Your proactive approach to incident response and postmortems ensures that you learn from challenges and improve systems over time.

Desirable

Experience with database systems and online storage solutions is a plus — you understand how to optimize data access and storage for high-performance applications. Familiarity with observability tools and practices will help you ensure that systems are not only reliable but also easy to monitor and troubleshoot.

What you'll do

In this role, you will design, build, and operate reliable systems used across engineering teams — your work will directly impact the performance and safety of AI systems like ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. You will identify and fix performance bottlenecks, ensuring that our infrastructure can scale to meet the demands of millions of users.

You will collaborate closely with infrastructure, product, and research teams to shape the technical direction of our systems — your insights will help turn complex infrastructure into reliable platforms that support cutting-edge research. You will also contribute to incident response efforts, ensuring that systems remain operational and resilient.

Your role will involve continuously improving automation processes to reduce manual work — you will enhance internal tooling and developer experience, making it easier for teams to deploy and manage applications. You will dig deep to resolve complex issues, leveraging your technical expertise to ensure high reliability and performance.

What we offer

At OpenAI, you will be part of a mission-driven organization that believes in the potential of AI to solve global challenges — your work will contribute to shaping the future of technology. We offer a collaborative and inclusive work environment where you can grow your skills and make a meaningful impact.

We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't match every requirement — we value diverse perspectives and are committed to building a team that reflects a variety of backgrounds and experiences. Join us in our mission to ensure that the benefits of AI are widely shared.