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.
230k – 385k
HybridData Engineering
About the role
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.
Build and manage data pipelines and canonical datasets for product metrics, safety systems, and business decisions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Data Science and Research; requires 3+ years data engineering experience with Spark, ETL tools, and distributed systems.
230k – 385k
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