Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Core Experimentation
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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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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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build and scale the foundational systems behind the experimentation and rollout platform, including the distributed control plane, SDK and server evaluation paths, ingestion pipelines, analytics foundations and operational tooling. You will focus on performance, scalability, reliability and correctness.
Requirements
- Experience building large-scale distributed systems with strict performance, availability and correctness requirements
- Experience with low-latency systems, caching, concurrency and high-throughput service design
- Experience building or operating large-scale data platforms, event pipelines or analytics systems
- Focus on reliability, observability, incident response and capacity planning
Responsibilities
- Design and operate low-latency configuration delivery systems for feature flags, dynamic configs and progressive rollouts
- Scale SDK, server-side evaluation and control-plane systems
- Build high-throughput data ingestion and analytics infrastructure
- Improve performance, efficiency, reliability and observability of core infrastructure
- Optimize query performance, data freshness and data availability
- Strengthen operational excellence through SLOs, alerting, debugging tools, incident response and capacity planning
- Partner with product and infrastructure teams to turn recurring needs into platform capabilities
- Lead large technical initiatives and shape architecture
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, dental and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA and commuter accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave, medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays and office closures
- 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 assistance
- Performance-related bonus
