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OpenAIOpenAISan Francisco, CA

Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Consumer Devices

Designs and builds scalable cloud infrastructure platforms powering OpenAI's consumer products, focusing on Kubernetes orchestration, reliability, and growth. Requires 8+ years experience leading large-scale systems with strong systems thinking.

325k – 440k/yr
Hybrid8+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure platforms that power OpenAI products
  • Evolve cloud infrastructure abstractions that enable rapid product development across teams
  • Architect systems to support significant growth, performance, and operational complexity
  • Improve server orchestration, networking, and distributed systems reliability
  • Influence technical direction and infrastructure strategy across multiple teams
  • Partner closely with product, research, and engineering teams to align infrastructure with evolving needs
  • Own operational excellence, including participation in on-call rotations and incident response
  • Mentor engineers and raise the overall technical bar of the organization
  • Contribute to a culture of high ownership, low ego, and thoughtful collaboration

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience building and operating large-scale infrastructure systems
  • Deep expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration at scale
  • Strong experience designing cloud abstractions and platform infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar)
  • Proven track record of leading complex technical initiatives across teams
  • Experience operating highly reliable, secure, and scalable distributed systems
  • Strong systems thinking with the ability to balance velocity, reliability, and simplicity
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
  • Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction
  • Passion for building infrastructure that enables impactful products

Skills

KubernetesAWSGCPAzureContainer OrchestrationDistributed SystemsServer OrchestrationNetworkingCloud Infrastructure

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