Software Engineer, Caching Infrastructure
Design, build, and operate a multi-tenant caching platform powering OpenAI's inference, identity, and products. Requires 5+ years in distributed systems with deep Redis/Memcached expertise and Kubernetes experience.
About the job
In This Role, You Will:
- Design, build, and operate OpenAI’s multi-tenant caching platform used across inference, identity, quota, and product experiences.
- Define the long-term vision and roadmap for caching as a core infra capability, balancing performance, durability, and cost.
- Collaborate with other infra teams (e.g., networking, observability, databases) and product teams to ensure our caching platform meets their needs.
You Might Thrive In This Role If You:
- Have 5+ years of experience building and scaling distributed systems, with a strong focus on caching, load balancing, or storage systems.
- Have deep expertise with Redis, Memcached or similar solutions, including clustering, durability configurations, client-side connection patterns, and performance tuning.
- Have production experience with Kubernetes, service meshes (e.g., Envoy), and autoscaling systems.
- Think rigorously about latency, reliability, throughput, and cost in designing platform capabilities.
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy balancing pragmatic engineering with long-term technical excellence.
Skills
Redis, Memcached, Kubernetes, Envoy, Distributed Systems, Caching, Load Balancing, Autoscaling, Networking, Storage Systems
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