Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

Responsibilities

• Drive the design, development, and implementation of tools, systems, and processes that accelerate engineering velocity, reduce manual effort, and increase the quality of output.
• Use our latest AI tools to re-think how we can be the most productive team in the industry.
• Work closely with various teams within OpenAI to understand their workflows, challenges, and needs, and ensure the tools and systems built by the Engineering Acceleration team address these requirements.
• Bring new features and research capabilities to the world by partnering with product engineers to lay the necessary technical foundations.
• Guide and advise product engineering teams on best practices for ensuring observable, scalable systems.
• Responsible for the reliability of the systems we build, including an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in engineering, including 3+ years of experience in infrastructure building tooling for developers.
• Experience-driven empathy for the tools, frustrations, and processes that slow engineering teams down and lead to toil or burnout.
• Voracious and intrinsic desire to learn and fill in missing skills—and an equally strong talent for sharing learnings clearly and concisely with others.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing conditions. You view changes as an opportunity to add structure and order when necessary.

Technical Context

• Large-scale deployment of GPU nodes running in dozens of Kubernetes clusters across regions.
• Core technologies: Terraform, Buildkite, Postgres, Cosmos DB, Kafka, Python, FastAPI.