Software Engineer, Private Computing
Design, build, and scale privacy features and infrastructure for ChatGPT, API, and consumer devices using confidential computing and encryption. Requires 5+ years of software engineering experience and production experience with trusted execution environments.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Ship fast while balancing difficult trade-offs in complex domains
- Build core abstractions for trusted execution environments and end-to-end encryption
- Build product features for private inference and storage across ChatGPT, API, and future consumer devices
- Update build systems to increase trust and verifiability
- Integrate with safety and integrity infrastructure
- Operate systems at scale with high reliability, including an on-call rotation
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams across product, engineering, security, safety, policy, and legal
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in professional software engineering
- Experience building and scaling confidential computing or encryption technologies in production environments
- Experience with Kubernetes and cloud orchestration systems
- Pride in building and operating scalable, reliable, secure systems
- Ability to collaborate well and drive alignment in the face of difficult trade-offs
- Comfort with ambiguity and rapid change
Skills
Kubernetes, Confidential Computing, Trusted Execution Environments, End-To-End Encryption, Cloud Orchestration, Private Inference, Build Systems, System Reliability, Security Infrastructure
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