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OpenAIOpenAISan Francisco, CA

Software Engineer, Observability

Build observability infrastructure and AI-powered tools for OpenAI's large-scale production systems, including logging, metrics, and debugging UIs. Requires experience with distributed systems, Kubernetes, AWS, and observability tools.

255k – 405k/yr
On-siteDevOps / SRE

About the role

What You’ll Do

  • Own core observability infrastructure, including distributed logging, time series, and trace storage
  • Build AI-native tools that help engineers detect, understand, and resolve issues autonomously.
  • Contribute to UI experiences like dashboards, notebooking, or interactive debugging
  • Collaborate closely with engineers, researchers, user ops, and other teams across the company to build the next generation observability product

You Might Be a Fit If You:

  • Have operated large-scale distributed systems in production (especially logging systems or some other time series databases)
  • Thrive in ambiguous environments and roll up your sleeves to solve unscoped problems.
  • Have full-stack chops or product sensibilities—you're excited to build real tools people use.
  • Have strong fundamentals in systems, networking, and cloud infra (Kubernetes, AWS, etc).

Bonus: built or contributed to observability systems (e.g. Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, etc).

Skills

KubernetesAWSPrometheusOpenTelemetryDistributed LoggingTime Series DatabasesTrace StorageDistributed SystemsFull-Stack DevelopmentCloud Infrastructure

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