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.
About the job
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
Kubernetes, AWS, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Distributed Logging, Time Series Databases, Trace Storage, Distributed Systems, Full-Stack Development, Cloud Infrastructure
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