Software Engineer, Core Services
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 design and operate critical backend platforms such as caching systems, workflow orchestration, metadata stores, and file services. You'll collaborate with product teams to provide scalable, reliable primitives and improve the performance, resilience and scalability of core services.
Requirements
- Experience with distributed systems, caching infrastructure (Redis, Memcached), metadata storage (FoundationDB), or workflow orchestration (Temporal, Cadence)
- Experience running containerized services in cloud environments and integrating them into CI/CD workflows
- Understanding of trade-offs in consistency models, replication strategies, and performance optimization in multi-region systems
- Strong communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain shared infrastructure services such as caching layers, workflow orchestration (Temporal), metadata stores, and file storage services
- Collaborate with product teams to provide scalable, reliable primitives that abstract distributed systems complexity
- Improve performance, resilience, and scalability of core services
Benefits
- Equity
- 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 (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
- 13+ paid company holidays and 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
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
