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Software Engineer, Productivity - Networking

Enhances developer productivity for OpenAI's networking team by improving build systems, CI/CD pipelines, test harnesses, and workflows for C++ and Python codebases in multi-server environments. Requires experience with developer tools and infrastructure automation.

230k – 385k/yr
On-siteDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Improve development workflows for engineers building and operating OpenAI's networking systems
  • Design and improve continuous deployment, release, and validation pipelines
  • Build and maintain test harnesses for multi-server, networked, and hardware-backed environments
  • Improve iteration speed across C++, Python, and build-system-heavy codebases
  • Partner with engineers to identify friction in CI, testing, debugging, and deployment workflows
  • Drive testing and reliability strategy for infrastructure components that support large-scale training and inference workloads
  • Work closely with centralized developer experience teams while staying deeply embedded with the networking engineers

Requirements

  • Motivated by helping other engineers move faster and with more confidence
  • Experience with CI/CD, release pipelines, testing infrastructure, or build systems
  • Comfortable moving between C++, Python, and build systems such as CMake, Bazel, or Blaze
  • Enjoy building test harnesses, automation, and workflow improvements for complex systems
  • Excited to learn about networking domain to make the team more effective
  • Instinct to fix friction like slow builds, flaky tests, brittle release processes, painful debugging, unclear validation
  • Pragmatic, balance high standards with forward progress
  • Like going end-to-end: understanding engineers, workflows, codebase, and operational realities
  • Self-directed and comfortable operating with ambiguity in high-context infrastructure environment

Skills

C++PythonCI/CDBazelCmakeBlazeTesting InfrastructureRelease PipelinesBuild SystemsTest Harnesses

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