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OpenAIOpenAISan Francisco, CA

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Engineering Acceleration | Consumer Devices

Senior Staff engineer building CI/CD pipelines, developer workflows, and internal platforms to accelerate engineering velocity for OpenAI's consumer device and cloud software. Requires 10+ years experience including 5+ years in dev productivity or platform engineering.

347k – 385k/yr
Hybrid10+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate CI/CD systems and software delivery pipelines for software that runs both on device and in the cloud.
  • Lead the design and architecture of internal platform capabilities across build, test, deployment, workflow automation, and developer tooling.
  • Make hands-on technical decisions about platform design, abstraction boundaries, and system tradeoffs based on the team’s current stage, scale, and operational needs.
  • Improve developer productivity by shortening feedback loops across build, test, debugging, environment setup, and release-adjacent workflows.
  • Build self-serve paved-road workflows that reduce manual effort and make common engineering tasks fast, reliable, and easy to adopt.
  • Use AI-native tooling and automation to improve engineering workflows, failure triage, and developer output quality.
  • Build secure-by-default platform capabilities, including access controls, secrets and credential handling, artifact permissions, auditability, and policy enforcement in software delivery workflows.
  • Partner closely with product, systems, release, quality, and infrastructure teams to understand pain points and turn them into durable platform improvements.
  • Define and track metrics for platform health and engineering effectiveness, including build times, queue times, failure rates, flaky failures, and deployment lead time.
  • Guide engineering teams on pragmatic observability, reliability, and scalability choices for the systems they build.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation for the systems owned by the team.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years building developer productivity, CI/CD, internal platform, or engineering systems.
  • Deep experience designing and operating robust CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and software delivery infrastructure for complex products.
  • Strong track record of personally building platform features and workflow improvements that materially increased engineering velocity, reliability, or developer experience.
  • Experience making architectural decisions for internal platforms, including when to standardize, when to abstract, and when to keep systems simple.
  • Experience adapting technical decisions to the maturity and scaling stage of an organization, balancing speed, reliability, maintainability, and adoption.
  • Working knowledge of secure software delivery practices such as least-privilege access, secrets management, policy enforcement, auditability, or software supply chain hardening.
  • Strong empathy for the tools, workflows, and frustrations that create toil or slow engineering teams down.
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-changing environments and bringing structure where needed.
  • Communicate clearly and work effectively across teams with different priorities, constraints, and technical needs.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with large-scale deployment of CPU/GPU nodes running in Kubernetes clusters across regions.
  • Familiarity with Terraform, Buildkite, Bazel, Postgres, Cosmos DB, Kafka.

Compensation

Total compensation range: $347,000 - $385,000 USD.

Skills

CI/CDKubernetesTerraformbuildkiteBazelPostgrescosmos dbKafkasoftware delivery pipelinesdeveloper productivity toolssecure software delivery

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