# Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** Bellevue, WA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $293k – $325k/yr
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Low-Latency Systems, Data Ingestion, Analytics Infrastructure, Observability, Scalability, Reliability, Event Pipelines, Query Optimization, Real-Time Configuration
**Posted:** 2026-03-17

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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