Software Engineer, Compute - Storage
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 help build the storage platform that powers research and production systems. You'll work across object storage, cross-region data movement, lifecycle management and a federation layer that unifies multiple backends, mostly building Rust services on Kubernetes and owning them in production.
Requirements
- Experience building or operating distributed systems in production
- Experience with storage infrastructure, object stores, distributed filesystems, or data-intensive backend systems
- Strong production code, ideally in Rust or another systems-oriented language
- Comfort with Kubernetes-based systems
- Experience with tools such as Terraform, Grafana, or similar
Responsibilities
- Build and operate storage services that underpin research infrastructure
- Develop object storage systems across cloud and in-house environments
- Build systems for cross-region data movement, replication, and recovery
- Design lifecycle management capabilities for durable, available, cost-effective data
- Evolve the federation layer that unifies multiple backend systems
- Improve performance, reliability, and operational excellence
- Collaborate with researchers and infrastructure teams
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents, 20 weeks for non-birthing parents)
- Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays and coordinated company 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
