Software Engineer, Habitat (Online Data)
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 work on the core online database platform behind OpenAI's products, building and operating services that handle high-QPS, latency-sensitive workloads across regions. You will own a major surface area end to end, improve latency, correctness and cost, build tooling and instrumentation, and join an on-call rotation.
Requirements
- 8+ years building production software, including 3+ years leading large-scale projects
- Track record building high-scale distributed systems
- Experience in databases, caching, routing, indexing or CDC pipelines
- Proficiency in Rust and/or Python
- Excellent communication skills
Responsibilities
- Design and build core abstractions spanning storage, caching, routing, CDC and privacy enforcement
- Own a major surface area end to end
- Improve latency, correctness and cost efficiency for production workloads
- Build instrumentation, debugging workflows and developer tooling
- Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams
- Participate in an on-call rotation
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave
- Paid medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO
- 13+ paid company holidays
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid life and disability coverage
- Learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices
- Relocation support
