Software Engineer, Cloud Agents

4 days agoLeadSalary: 347K - 445KSan Francisco, USA Backend Jobs by OpenAI

OpenAI

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

Funding history

Funding roundExpanded revolving credit facilityNew investment ($110B)

Investors

Sam Altman Wells Fargo Nvidia Citi Reid Hoffman

Projects

RoiTrading Terminal

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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Skills

Cloud Infrastructure Distributed Systems Go Orchestration Python Reliability Rust Sandboxing Security Typescript

Candidate Availability

San Francisco · Required

About the Role

You will design and scale the orchestration, sandboxing and storage systems that run agentic workloads for Codex, ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. You will partner with product engineers to build a platform that helps them ship quickly, improve reliability, security, performance and cost efficiency, and deploy services across environments and clouds.

Requirements

9+ years of professional engineering experience
Experience leading large-scale backend, platform, or infrastructure projects
Proficiency in backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript
Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud platforms, and production reliability

Responsibilities

Design and scale orchestration, sandboxing, and storage systems for agentic workloads
Partner with product engineers to build a platform enabling fast shipping
Improve reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency for long-running agents
Deploy services across different environments and clouds

Benefits

Equity
Performance-related bonus
Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
401(k) with employer match
Paid parental leave, medical and caregiver leave
Flexible PTO
13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
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
Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends