Software Engineer, Cloud 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 will build infrastructure abstractions that help teams ship and scale products, with end-to-end production ownership. You will build systems that manage Kubernetes clusters through their lifecycle, develop platform tooling and automation, improve capacity management and autoscaling, make security and compliance part of daily operations, and own reliability including on-call.
Requirements
- At least five years of experience building core infrastructure
- Strong software engineering skills and experience building shared cloud or cluster platforms
- Experience with cluster lifecycle, automation, capacity, autoscaling, tenancy, or safe production changes
- Preferred: Terraform or comparable infrastructure as code
- Preferred: production Kubernetes operations
Responsibilities
- Build systems that create, configure, and manage Kubernetes clusters including upgrades
- Develop reusable platform tooling and infrastructure automation
- Improve capacity management, autoscaling, and resource allocation
- Make workloads easier to manage across clusters and clouds
- Make security, patching, and compliance part of daily platform operation
- Work with platform users to prioritize improvements
- Own reliability including on-call incident response
- Own a defined area and adapt to changing priorities