# Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Consumer Devices

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $325k – $440k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, Container Orchestration, Distributed Systems, Server Orchestration, Networking, Cloud Infrastructure
**Posted:** 2026-04-15

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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