Software Engineer, Product Infrastructure - Agent Runtime

3 hours agoLeadSalary: 266K - 445KSan Francisco, USA Backend Jobs by OpenAI

OpenAI

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

Funding history

Funding roundExpanded revolving credit facilityNew investment ($110B)

Investors

Sam Altman Wells Fargo Nvidia Citi Reid Hoffman

Projects

RoiTrading Terminal

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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Skills

Api Backend Distributed Systems Go Observability Orchestration Python Rust Typescript

Candidate Availability

San Francisco · Required

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will build services, APIs, and runtime capabilities behind persistent agents, covering persistent state, asynchronous execution, orchestration, and visibility. You will own systems from design through production.

Requirements

7+ years of professional software engineering experience
Track record of designing, shipping, and operating production services and APIs
Strong distributed systems fundamentals
Experience building production systems in Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or similar
Experience improving reliability and performance with observability
Strong product judgment and ability to translate ambiguous needs into clear APIs

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate backend services, APIs, and reusable runtime primitives for agent experiences
Build systems for persistent agent state, asynchronous execution, orchestration, and progress reporting
Develop infrastructure connecting agents with tools and execution environments
Improve reliability, scalability, and performance through observability and failure recovery
Partner with Product, Research, and engineering teams
Own projects end to end

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, medical and caregiver leave
Flexible PTO
13+ paid company holidays and office closures
Mental health and wellness support
Employer-paid life and disability coverage
Learning and development stipend
Daily meals and meal delivery credits
Relocation support
Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
Performance-related bonus