# Senior Staff Software Engineer, Engineering Acceleration | Consumer Devices

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $347k – $385k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** CI/CD, Kubernetes, Terraform, buildkite, Bazel, Postgres, cosmos db, Kafka, software delivery pipelines, developer productivity tools, secure software delivery
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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