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OpenAIOpenAISan Francisco, CA

Software Engineer, Core Services

Designs and operates critical backend platforms like caching, workflow orchestration, and metadata stores to enable scalable product development. Requires expertise in distributed systems, caching (Redis/Memcached), storage (FoundationDB), and orchestration (Temporal).

230k – 385k/yr
HybridBackend Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain shared infrastructure services such as caching layers, workflow orchestration (Temporal), metadata stores, and file storage services.
  • Collaborate with product teams to provide scalable, reliable primitives that abstract the complexities of distributed systems.
  • Improve performance, resilience, and scalability of core services that power customer-facing applications.

Requirements

  • Experience with distributed systems, caching infrastructure (e.g., Redis, Memcached), metadata storage (e.g., FoundationDB), or workflow orchestration (e.g., Temporal, Cadence).
  • Experience running containerized services in cloud environments and integrating them into automated build/test/release (CI/CD) workflows.
  • Understand trade-offs in consistency models, replication strategies, and performance optimization in multi-region systems.
  • Excel at communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams, and are obsessed with delivering customer success.

Skills

Distributed SystemsRedisMemcachedFoundationdbTemporalCadenceCI/CDKubernetesDockerCloud Platforms
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