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OpenAIOpenAIBellevue, WA

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Builds and scales infrastructure for OpenAI's experimentation platform, including low-latency configuration delivery, high-throughput data ingestion, and analytics systems handling billions of evaluations. Requires expertise in large-scale distributed systems, performance optimization, and operational excellence.

293k – 325k/yr
HybridDevOps / SRE

About the role

In this role, you will:

  • Design and operate low-latency configuration delivery systems powering progressive rollouts across OpenAI’s product suites.
  • Build highly scalable data ingestion and analytics infrastructure to support experimentation, product analytics, and feature performance monitoring.
  • Improve the performance, efficiency, and reliability of Statsig’s core infrastructure, ensuring systems remain fast and stable as OpenAI’s products scale globally.
  • Optimize query performance and data availability for experimentation and analytics workflows used by teams across OpenAI.
  • Lead large technical initiatives and shape the architecture of experimentation and rollout infrastructure used across the company.

You might thrive in this role if you:

  • Have experience building large-scale distributed systems with strict performance and reliability requirements.
  • Enjoy solving low-latency systems problems, such as real-time configuration delivery, high-throughput ingestion pipelines, or large-scale analytics systems.
  • Have experience building and optimizing large-scale data platforms, event pipelines, etc.
  • Care deeply about system reliability, observability, and operational excellence in production environments.
  • Take ownership of complex technical problems end-to-end and enjoy building infrastructure that enables other teams to move faster.

Skills

Distributed SystemsLow-Latency SystemsData IngestionAnalytics InfrastructureObservabilityScalabilityReliabilityEvent PipelinesQuery OptimizationReal-Time Configuration

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