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OpenAIOpenAISan Francisco, CA

Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

Builds and maintains cloud infrastructure abstractions for scalable, reliable product platforms like ChatGPT. Requires 5+ years in core infrastructure, Kubernetes at scale, and cloud abstractions; onsite in San Francisco with on-call duties.

230k – 490k/yr
On-site5+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design and build the development and production platforms that power our products, enabling reliability and security at scale
  • Ensure our infrastructure can scale to the next order of magnitude
  • Help create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture that makes all feel welcome while enabling radical candor and the challenging of group think
  • Participate in on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed

Requirements

  • 5+ years building core infrastructure
  • Experience operating orchestration systems such as Kubernetes at scale
  • Experience building abstractions over cloud platforms
  • Take pride in building and operating scalable, reliable, secure systems
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change

Skills

KubernetesCloud PlatformsInfrastructure As CodeScalable SystemsReliable SystemsSecure SystemsNetworkingOrchestration Systems

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