# Software Engineer, Cloud Agents

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $293k – $385k/yr
**Experience:** 9+ years
**Skills:** Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, Distributed Systems, Cloud Platforms, Backend Development, Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, Production Reliability
**Posted:** 2026-06-06

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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