Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.

41 current maintainers27 active leads7 new active leads120 lead step-downs17 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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, build, and operate the next generation of data infrastructure, scaling big data compute and storage platforms, high-throughput streaming systems and low-latency ingestion. You'll own the full lifecycle including production operations and on-call participation.

Requirements

  • 4+ years in data infrastructure engineering, or 4+ years in infrastructure engineering with strong interest in data
  • Experience supporting Spark, Kafka, Flink, Airflow, Trino, or Iceberg
  • Familiarity with Terraform and debugging large-scale distributed systems
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain data infrastructure systems such as distributed compute, orchestration, storage, streaming, and ML infrastructure
  • Ensure the data platform scales by orders of magnitude reliably and efficiently
  • Empower engineers with excellent data tooling and systems
  • Collaborate with product, research and analytics teams
  • Own reliability of systems including on-call rotation for critical incidents

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