Software Engineer, Distributed Data Systems (Sora)
Designs and scales distributed data infrastructure for large-scale multimodal training and evaluation at OpenAI. Collaborates with researchers to build reliable, high-performance systems handling massive data volumes in a fast-paced environment.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain data infrastructure systems such as distributed compute, data orchestration, distributed storage, streaming infrastructure, machine learning infrastructure while ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.
- Ensure our data platform can scale by orders of magnitude while remaining reliable and efficient.
- Partner with researchers to deeply understand requirements and translate them into production-ready systems.
- Harden, optimize, and maintain critical data infrastructure systems that power multimodal training and evaluation.
Requirements
- Strong experience with distributed systems and large-scale infrastructure with a strong interest in data.
- Detail-oriented and bring rigor to building and maintaining reliable systems.
- Excellent software engineering fundamentals and organizational skills.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change.
Skills
Distributed Systems, Data Orchestration, Distributed Storage, Streaming Infrastructure, Machine Learning Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Spark, Apache Kafka, AWS, GCP
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