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Software Engineer, Product Velocity

3 days agoSalary: 347K - 445KSan Francisco, USADevopsJobs by OpenAI

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
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 make ChatGPT development faster and more reliable by improving local development, Bazel builds, CI, deployment infrastructure, and production safety signals. You will build automation and agents and establish metrics for impact.

Requirements

  • Strong experience with large-scale developer infrastructure, build systems, CI/CD, deployment systems, or production reliability
  • Ability to debug across local machines, devboxes, remote caches, monorepos, and distributed deploy pipelines
  • Comfort with Bazel, Buildkite, Kubernetes, Temporal, Python/TypeScript, GitHub workflows, or ability to ramp quickly
  • Know how to replace manual intervention with policy-backed automation
  • Strong cross-team communication

Responsibilities

  • Reduce local development startup and iteration latency
  • Improve Bazel and build performance across local machines, devboxes, and CI
  • Improve CI reliability and merge throughput
  • Build agents that help PRs make progress
  • Make deploy pipelines more self-healing
  • Improve deploy observability
  • Establish lightweight metrics for before-and-after impact

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