Software Engineer, Caching Infrastructure
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
49 current maintainers29 active leads5 new active leads117 lead step-downs16 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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About the Role
You'll design, build, and operate a multi-tenant caching platform used across inference, identity, quota, and product experiences. You'll define the long-term vision and roadmap for caching, balancing performance, durability, and cost, and collaborate with infrastructure and product teams.
Requirements
- 5+ years building and scaling distributed systems, focused on caching, load balancing, or storage
- Deep expertise with Redis, Memcached, or similar, including clustering, durability, and performance tuning
- Production experience with Kubernetes, service meshes (e.g., Envoy), and autoscaling
- Rigorous thinking about latency, reliability, throughput, and cost
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate a multi-tenant caching platform
- Define the long-term vision and roadmap for caching as a core infra capability
- Collaborate with infra and product teams to meet their needs
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks birth parents, 20 weeks non-birthing parents)
- Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees; up to 15 days for non-exempt
- 13+ paid company holidays and coordinated office closures
- Paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
