Software Engineering • Mid-Level

Who you are

You have significant experience building, scaling, and optimizing distributed systems — you've tackled performance bottlenecks and understand the intricacies of high-performance database infrastructure. Your expertise in C++ allows you to work closely with the core engine, ensuring it operates at peak efficiency.

You thrive in collaborative environments, partnering with product, engineering, and research teams to deliver scalable and reliable infrastructure. Your problem-solving skills enable you to dig deep into complex production issues across the stack, contributing to incident response and best practices for system reliability.

What you'll do

As a Software Engineer on the Database Systems team, you will design, build, and operate high-performance distributed systems that power OpenAI's core functionalities. You'll identify and resolve performance bottlenecks to scale infrastructure to the next order of magnitude, ensuring that the systems can handle increasing loads effectively.

You will define long-term technical direction and guide system evolution, collaborating with cross-functional teams to unlock new product capabilities. Your role will involve contributing to the core database engine, driving improvements across ingestion, query execution, indexing, and storage.

You will also participate in incident response and postmortems, helping to establish best practices for system reliability. Your contributions will directly impact the performance and scalability of OpenAI's database systems, making you a key player in the team's success.

What we offer

At OpenAI, you will be part of a mission-driven team that believes in the potential of artificial intelligence to solve global challenges. We offer a collaborative work environment where your contributions will be valued and recognized. Join us in shaping the future of technology and making a meaningful impact in the field of AI.