# Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $230k – $490k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Cloud Platforms, Infrastructure As Code, Scalable Systems, Reliable Systems, Secure Systems, Networking, Orchestration Systems
**Posted:** 2025-08-04

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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