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OpenAIOpenAISan Francisco, CA

Software Engineer, Cloud Agents

Build and scale orchestration, sandboxing, and storage systems for long-running cloud agents powering Codex, ChatGPT, and the OpenAI API. Requires 9+ years experience leading large-scale backend or infrastructure projects.

293k – 385k/yr
Hybrid9+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design and scale the orchestration, sandboxing and storage systems that run agentic workloads for Codex, ChatGPT, and the OpenAI API.
  • Partner with product engineers to build a platform that enables them to ship quickly and turn feedback into robust abstractions.
  • Improve reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency for long-running agents.
  • Deploy services that can operate across different environments and clouds.

Requirements

  • 9+ years of professional engineering experience, excluding internships, in relevant roles at technology and product-driven companies.
  • Experience leading large-scale backend, platform, or infrastructure projects from ambiguous problem statements to production systems.
  • Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or similar, and the ability to move across service, platform, and product boundaries.
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud platforms, and production reliability.
  • Enjoy abstracting away complex infrastructure and building platforms for product engineers to move faster.
  • Care about building platforms for other engineers and developers, and enjoy working closely with users to make complex infrastructure feel simple.
  • Comfort with a fast-moving pace while caring for security and operational excellence.

Skills

PythonGoRustTypeScriptDistributed SystemsCloud PlatformsBackend DevelopmentInfrastructurePlatform EngineeringProduction Reliability

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