Software Engineer, Observability
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 own core observability infrastructure including distributed logging, time series and trace storage, build AI-native tools that help engineers detect and resolve issues autonomously, and contribute to UI experiences like dashboards and notebooks.
Requirements
- Experience operating large-scale distributed systems in production, especially logging or time series databases
- Full-stack skills or product sensibilities
- Strong fundamentals in systems, networking and cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, AWS)
- Bonus: experience with observability systems such as Prometheus or OpenTelemetry
Responsibilities
- Own core observability infrastructure including distributed logging, time series and trace storage
- Build AI-native tools that help engineers detect, understand and resolve issues autonomously
- Contribute to UI experiences like dashboards, notebooking and interactive debugging
- Collaborate with engineers, researchers and user ops to build the next generation observability product
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave
- Paid medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO
- 13+ paid company holidays
- 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
- Relocation support
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
