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Software Engineer, Private Computing

230k – 385kSan Francisco, CAHybrid5+ YOE
Summary

Design, build, and scale privacy features and infrastructure for ChatGPT, API, and consumer devices using confidential computing and encryption. Requires 5+ years of software engineering experience and production experience with trusted execution environments.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Ship fast while balancing difficult trade-offs in complex domains
  • Build core abstractions for trusted execution environments and end-to-end encryption
  • Build product features for private inference and storage across ChatGPT, API, and future consumer devices
  • Update build systems to increase trust and verifiability
  • Integrate with safety and integrity infrastructure
  • Operate systems at scale with high reliability, including an on-call rotation
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams across product, engineering, security, safety, policy, and legal

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in professional software engineering
  • Experience building and scaling confidential computing or encryption technologies in production environments
  • Experience with Kubernetes and cloud orchestration systems
  • Pride in building and operating scalable, reliable, secure systems
  • Ability to collaborate well and drive alignment in the face of difficult trade-offs
  • Comfort with ambiguity and rapid change
Skills
KubernetesConfidential ComputingTrusted Execution EnvironmentsEnd-to-End EncryptionCloud OrchestrationPrivate InferenceBuild SystemsSystem ReliabilitySecurity Infrastructure
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