# Software Engineer, Platform Systems

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $310k – $460k/yr
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Failure Detection, Tracing, Profiling, Observability, High-Performance Computing, Networking, Concurrency, Linux, C++
**Posted:** 2026-01-23

> Designs and builds distributed failure detection, tracing, and observability systems for large-scale AI training jobs. Requires deep expertise in performance, distributed systems, hardware, networking, and low-level software engineering.

## Job Description

## In This Role, You Will
- Design and build distributed failure detection, tracing, and profiling systems for large-scale AI training jobs
- Develop tooling to identify slow, faulty, or misbehaving nodes and provide actionable visibility into system behavior
- Improve observability, reliability, and performance across OpenAI’s training platform
- Debug and resolve issues in complex, high-throughput distributed systems
- Collaborate with systems, infrastructure, and research teams to evolve platform capabilities
- Extend and adapt failure detection systems or tracing systems to support new training paradigms and workloads

## You Might Thrive in This Role If You
- Care deeply about performance, stability, and observability in distributed systems
- Enjoy finding and fixing issues in large-scale systems and automating operational workflows
- Have experience writing low-level software where system details matter
- Understand hardware, operating systems, networking, concurrency, and distributed systems
- Have a background in high-performance computing or low-level systems engineering
- Are excited to work on critical infrastructure that powers frontier AI research

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