Software Engineer, Traffic Infrastructure
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
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
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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 build and operate networking and traffic infrastructure connecting products and services across clouds and regions, spanning L3, L4, and L7. You will develop gateways, proxies, and controllers, diagnose network failures, build telemetry tools, partner with Security, and participate in on-call.
Requirements
- 5+ years building production infrastructure or distributed systems with networking focus
- Depth in cloud networking, Kubernetes networking, proxies, service meshes, or load balancing
- Understanding of IP routing, TCP/UDP, DNS, NAT, TLS, HTTP/gRPC
- Hands-on experience with Envoy, NGINX, Istio, Cilium or similar
- Production software in Go, Rust, C++, Python or similar
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate ingress, egress, and service-to-service connectivity
- Develop proxies, gateways, controllers, and automation for routing, load balancing, and failover
- Build cloud networking infrastructure including private connectivity, NAT, and network isolation
- Diagnose failures and performance bottlenecks across networking layers
- Build telemetry and diagnostic tools
- Partner with Security on traffic-path protections including DDoS defenses
- Improve latency, throughput, availability, and network efficiency
- Create interfaces and safe defaults, participate in on-call
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- 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 up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents
- Paid medical and caregiver leave up to 8 weeks
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- 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 and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends